Singapore’s resilience to extreme urban heat ranked 19th globally: Savills

European urban areas reign over the leading ranks, with Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Stockholm taking the top 3 places due to their colder climates and dynamic environmental regulations.

Property owners have to ensure that their property can adjust to environment improvements, future energy-related regulation, and physical threats, like the threat of structure harm created by severe warm.

According to Paul Tostevin, Savills’ director of globe research, too much warmth intensifies air deterioration, increases the danger of a wild fire, and heightens the threat of flood. “It threatens the good looks of a metro to locate, work, and play and as a venue for investment decision and small business development,” he says.

Excessive heat intensifies air pollution, raises the risk of wildfires, and heightens the risk of flood, weakening a metro’s attractiveness as a location to reside, work, and enjoy and as a location for financial investment and service growth, he adds.

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Singapore is rated 19th amongst 30 worldwide cities best equipped to deal with extreme city heating in a new Hot weather Resilience Index by Savills. The index assesses a metro’s average and record heats in 2023 against its environmental practices, social plans and governance.

Chris Cummings, executive of Savills Earth, stresses the importance of contemplating city heat in city planning. He indicates that higher land values facing parks and water bodies commonly cause a concentration of taller establishments that can develop a “wall effect”, trapping warm in the city environment.

Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney are within the leading 20 Asia Pacific cities, with Tokyo standing top at fourth spot.


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