Surviving the City: How Residents Adapt to Heat, Floods, and a Sinking Ground

About this event

Bangkok faces an accelerating convergence of climate risks that are already reshaping daily life for its residents. Urban heat effects intensify temperatures beyond regional averages, recurrent flooding disrupts livelihoods across low-lying districts, and land subsidence compounds the city’s long-term vulnerability. These risks fall most heavily on those least equipped to respond — elderly residents, outdoor workers, children, and communities in under-served or flood-prone neighbourhoods. The World Bank projects Thailand’s GDP could fall by 7–14% by 2050 without timely, sufficient adaptation investment. Public understanding of the risks, choices, and trade-offs involved remains limited, and there are few structured channels through which residents, researchers, funders, and policymakers can exchange lessons with peer cities facing the same pressures. The inter-city panel is convened to help close that gap. In addition, during 5-11 October, there will also be an exhibition about climate risks and ways the residents can adapt to these risks, shown at the MRT Entrance to One Bangkok, B1 floor, Parade Zone.