Skip to content

Shanghai

ChinaCity

Environmental overview

A low-lying megacity on the Yangtze River delta, managing historical land subsidence, typhoon and storm surge exposure, and sea level rise.

Issues
1
Categories
1
Sources
2
Loading globe…

Major issues

What is changing in Shanghai.

Climate

Severity is descriptive editorial metadata summarising documented effects. It is not a measured index or a score.

  1. 01ClimateSeverity: HighSubsidence, storm surge and sea level rise in ShanghaiA low-lying delta megacity faces compounding risk from typhoons, storm surge, river floods and rising seas.4 causes · 3 impacts · 4 solutions · 2 sources

Compare

Set Shanghai beside another place

Shared challenges, different contexts, transferable solutions.

Start comparing

What-If

Explore what could change

An illustrative scenario for climate and other issues here.

Open What-If