Singapore’s resilience to extreme urban heat ranked 19th globally: Savills
European urban areas control the major rankings, with Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm taking the top 3 areas as a result of their cooler climates and dynamic environmental regulations.
According to Paul Tostevin, Savills’ director of world research, extreme heat worsens air pollution, increases the risk of a wild fire, and heightens the threat of flooding. “It undermines the attractiveness of a city to live, work, and play and as a venue for investment and establishment development,” he says.
Extreme warmth worsens air contamination, raises the risk of wildfires, and increases the danger of flooding, undermining a city’s appearance as a location to reside, work, and enjoy and as a place for financial investment and business development, he adds.
Real estate proprietors must ensure that their real estate can adjust to environment improvements, future energy-related regulation, and physical threats, including the possibility of structure harm induced by extreme heat.
Chris Cummings, executive of Savills Earth, stresses the relevance of looking at city hot weather in city plan. He indicates that greater land values facing parks and water bodies usually cause a concentration of taller buildings that can create a “wall structure effect”, capturing warm in the metropolitan atmosphere.
Singapore is rated 19th among 30 worldwide cities best organized to deal with excessive urban heat in a new Temperature Resilience Index by Savills. The index analyzes a place’s standard and log heats in 2023 across its ecological ways, social protocols and jurisdiction.
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney are with the leading 20 Asia Pacific cities, with Tokyo positioning top at 4th place.
