Given that about a third of the country lies below sea level, the greatest long-term risk is from flooding as a result of rising sea levels
are rising twice as fast as the global average – meaning the country will have to invest heavily in adapting critical infrastructure to cope with the damaging impact.
Environmental research shows that between 1990-2023 total warming from greenhouse gases caused by humans increased by 51 per cent, and KNMI director Maarten van Aalst says the institute’s findings are consistent with this backdrop. Given that about a third of the Netherlands lies below sea level, with the North Sea held back by a sophisticated system of dykes, pumps and sand dunes, the greatest long-term risk is from flooding as a result of rising sea levels.
That devastation led to the construction of the Delta Works, a system of five enormous storm surge barriers and six dams engineered to protect areas below sea level from flooding.
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