Sri Lanka

It takes only 21 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Sri Lankan will produce over the course of the entire year.  Therefore, January 21st (21 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Sri Lanka Day."

In Sri Lanka, climate change is expected to result in a rise in sea level, higher temperatures, more frequent and prolonged droughts in certain areas, and higher intensity rainfalls in others.  Among the many anticipated impacts of these changes are a loss of low lying coastal settlements through inundation and erosion, flooding, increased vulnerability to storm damage, salt water intrusion into cultivated areas and aquifers, damage to coral reefs, and decrease in agricultural yield.

Source: Initial National Communication of Sri Lanka under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change