Umbrellas from Jakarta: Empowering Local Artisans
Talk about climate change and the biggest affected cities in Asia, Jakarta is one of the top cities that have the worst air quality, water quality and issues concerning waste and garbage.
There is so much of an issue of garbage in the Capital of Indonesia that the people that live in landfills are concerned about of all things avalanches killing them because the landfills are so enormous.
According to a Treehugger article in 2009, the World Wildlife Federation reported that Jakarta was one of the top three cities in Asia that have been seriously affected by climate change, overpopulation and risk of flooding. The article added that:
The Indonesian capital fares slightly better than Dhaka, and is under much less stress from increasing storms (though sea level rise and flooding risks are still high). However, it is much more subject to socio-economic stresses due to climate change — a huge portion of the nation’s GDP is generated in Jakarta and it has a large population. In terms of adaptive capacity, things are slightly better than Dhaka, Jakarta scoring 7 out of 10 (in this case high scores indicated worse performance).
