Singapore’s resilience to extreme urban heat ranked 19th globally: Savills
Extreme heat worsens air pollution, increases the hazard of wildfires, and heightens the threat of flood, undermining a city’s attractiveness as an area to live, work, and enjoy and as a location for investment and business development, he includes.
European urban areas dominate the leading rankings, with Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm taking the very top 3 spots as a result of their much cooler environments and dynamic ecological policies.
Singapore is rated 19th amongst 30 global urban areas best equipped to handle excessive metropolitan heat in a new Temperature Resilience Index by Savills. The index assesses a place’s usual and record high temperatures in 2023 across its environmental ways, social protocols and jurisdiction.
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney are with the leading 20 Asia Pacific cities, with Tokyo standing highest at fourth spot.
Realty proprietors must ensure that their estate can adapt to climate improvements, future energy-related legislation, and physical dangers, including the threat of building issue caused by extreme warmth.
According to Paul Tostevin, Savills’ supervisor of world research, extreme heat worsens air pollution, enhances the danger of wildfire, and enhances the threat of flooding. “It undermines the appearance of a town to settle, work, and play and as a venue for venture and small business expansion,” he claims.
Chris Cummings, executive of Savills Earth, stresses the relevance of looking at urban hot weather in city planning. He indicates that higher land values facing parklands and water bodies typically result in a concentration of taller establishments that can produce a “wall effect”, capturing warm in the metropolitan environment.
