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North Asia has the coldest climate due to its proximity to the Arctic, but it also experiences greater relative warming due to what is known as the arctic amplification. [3]: 1464 This has led to permafrost thaw, which acts as a climate change feedback and also places large quantities of infrastructure at risk of collapse. [3]: 1500
The waters around Asia are subjected to the same impacts as elsewhere, such as the increased warming and ocean acidification. [33]: 1465 There are many coral reefs in the region, and they are highly vulnerable to climate change, [33]: 1459 to the point practically all of them will be lost if the warming exceeds 1.5 °C (2.7 °F).
A National Policy on Climate Change was enacted in 2009, along with a National Renewable Energy Policy. [ 1 ] : 7 Around this time Malaysia pledged a 40% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020 compared to 2005, [ 1 ] : 1 and the Renewable Energy Act was adopted in 2011 alongside the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Act.
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Though this is primarily a climate change-induced trend, we humans and our behaviors, lifestyles and policies are equally responsible." [24] An analysis conducted using the Climate Shift Index (CSI), a metric developed by Climate Central, found that climate change at least doubled the chances of the June heat wave in Uttar Pradesh, India. [83]
The East Asian monsoon is a monsoonal flow that carries moist air from the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean to East Asia.It affects approximately one-third of the global population, influencing the climate of Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, China, the Philippines and Mainland Southeast Asia but most significantly Vietnam.
Monsoons hit South Asia every year, mostly between June and September. Every year, floods affect the Indian subcontinent , collapsing buildings and causing landslides. Climate change in South Asia has exacerbated these storms.
Climate change has been observed to have caused impact on human health and livelihoods in urban settings. [38] Urbanization commonly occurs in cities with low and middle income communities that have high population density and a lack of understanding of how climate change, which degrades their environment, is affecting their health.