By Manuel Planelles and Esther Sànchez (El Pais)
It's not just about flooding caused by rising sea levels and storms.
Ports, essential infrastructure for the economic development of any country, are also threatened by other consequences of climate change, such as strong winds and high temperatures, which prevent dockworkers from working under normal conditions.
A group of experts from the Institute for Environmental Hydraulics at the University of Cantabria and the United States National Center for Atmospheric Research have created a tool to calculate the present and future risk that hangs over activities in the 2013 most important coastal ports in the world.
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This group of experts also published an article in the journal
Nature Climate Change
where it indicates that 289 of these infrastructures - that is more than 14% - will face an "
extreme
" or "
very high
"
risk
by the end of the century if the agreement
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