More than 1.7 million French persons are uncovered to cyclone danger. The Antilles, Mayotte and Réunion are significantly uncovered territories. They are positioned within the tropical zone, the place cyclones and hurricanes type.
In latest a long time, cyclones and hurricanes have change into extra highly effective due to international warming. Between the Sixties and the top of the 2000s, international temperature elevated from +0.6°C to +1.5°C in keeping with the National Observatory on the Effects of Global Warming. According to a report from the NGO Réseaux Action Climat, if warming reaches +2°C, cyclones and hurricanes is not going to solely be extra highly effective, but in addition extra frequent. Faced with these new weather conditions, abroad territories should adapt. And municipalities are sometimes on the entrance line in making ready for the hurricane interval annually.
In this video, we depart for the island of Reunion, the place our correspondent Jérôme Talpin went to watch the event of ravines, these watercourses which may overflow throughout a cyclone. Their administration is a crucial problem for the island, as defined by Julien Renzoni, director of the surroundings and planning and housing division (DEAL) of Reunion.
If you wish to know extra about cyclone danger within the Indian Ocean islands, we invite you to learn the article beneath.
“Lands and mayors”
Local elected officers are on the entrance line to face the concrete penalties of local weather change. To think about the way forward for our municipalities, it’s obligatory to know the problems that mayors should face. On the event of the 2026 municipal elections, we invite you to discover 4 main environmental points on the native scale: coastal erosion, lack of snow, artificialization of soils and at last cyclone danger.
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