Jakarta ranked world’s most environmentally vulnerable city

Vehicles move through floodwater at the Bank Indonesia traffic circle in Central Jakarta on Feb 25, 2020 as heavy rain inundated several areas of the capital. - Antara

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The Big Durian has been ranked as the world’s most environmentally vulnerable metropolitan, as climate change, pollution, heatwaves, earthquakes and flooding are key threats to the capital’s residents and businesses.

Jakarta was dubbed the “worst-performing city in the ranking”, followed by India’s Delhi – each of which houses more than 10 million people – in a study of the world’s 576 largest cities conducted by United Kingdom-based business risk consultancy Verisk Maplecroft.