http://www.english.hadhramaut.info Aden threatened by climate change, international report says [The Source: - ] Aden, Yemen's southern port city, is one of the world's 20 cities being threatened by climate change that may be hit by typhoons and rising sea levels, a report by the Washington-based Center for Global Development has said. The report noted the estimation was based on three key factors which were a one-meter sea level rise, the increase in severity of storms that occur once every 100 years by 10 percent and the U.N. forecasts on population growth. Other Arab cities besides Aden included in the report were Egypt's Bour Saeed and Alexandria. While other world cities were Nigerian Lagos, Liberian Monrovia, Pakistani Karachi, Indonesian Jakarta, Bangladesh Khulna , Indian Calcutta, Thai Bangkok, Ivorian Coast Abidjan, Vietnamese Ho Chi Minh, Myanmar Yangon, Guinean Konakry, Angolan Lawanda, Brazilian Rio de Janeiro and Senegalese Dakar. Aden is Yemen's business capital that covers 750 square kilometers and has 3 percent of Yemen's pupation, about 589419 people.The Center for Global Development (CGD) is a not-for-profit think tank based in Washington, D.C. that focuses on international development.It was founded in November 2001 by former senior US official Edward W. Scott, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, C. Fred Bergsten, and Nancy Birdsall.Birdsall, the former Vice President of the Inter-American Development Bank and the former Director of the Policy Research Department at the World Bank, became the first President of CGD.CGD's stated mission is "to reduce global poverty and inequality by encouraging policy change in the U.S. and other rich countries through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community.Recently, Foreign Policy Magazine's Think-Tank Index listed CGD as one of the top 15 think-tanks in the US.The Center considers itself to be a 'think and do' tank, with an emphasis on producing research that is channeled into practical policy proposals.