Singapore’s resilience to extreme urban heat ranked 19th globally: Savills
Extreme heat aggravates air pollution, boosts the danger of wildfires, and increases the risk of flooding, threatening a city’s attractiveness as an area to reside, work, and play and as a site for investment and organization expansion, he adds.
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney are with the leading 20 Asia Pacific cities, with Tokyo positioning greatest at 4th place.
Chris Cummings, executive of Savills Earth, stresses the value of looking at metropolitan heat in city planning. He mentions that higher land worths facing parklands and water bodies typically lead to a concentration of taller buildings that can create a “wall structure effect”, trapping warmth in the urban setting.
According to Paul Tostevin, Savills’ director of world research, extreme warm aggravates air contamination, boosts the danger of wildfire, and enhances the risk of flooding. “It threatens the attractiveness of a metro to settle, work, and play and as a place for investment decision and business development,” he claims.
European urban areas reign over the leading ranks, with Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm taking the very top three areas due to their cooler environments and dynamic ecological protocols.
Real estate owners need to ensure that their estate can adjust to environment improvements, future energy-related legislation, and physical threats, such as the threat of structure issue caused by extreme heat.
Singapore is ranked 19th amongst 30 international metropolitan areas best prepared to handle excessive city heating in a new Heat Resilience Index by Savills. The index examines a city’s usual and document high temperatures in 2023 against its environmental practices, social plans and jurisdiction.
