For the first time, researchers have assessed which nations and which groups of people are most at risk
from climate volatility.
What's more, scenarios where weather events unfold economic and political shifts are likely to be repeated
as climate volatility, expanding populations and competition for resources disturb national stability, the report says.
Syud Ahmed, from the Development Research Group at the World Bank in Washington DC, US, along with Noah Diffenbaugh and Thomas Hertel of Purdue University, US, combined global climate - model runs with statistical population data to assess the impacts on poverty of
climate volatility for seven socio - economic groups in 16 developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Climate volatility is a better descriptor.
Considering the risks inherent in nuclear power, the chronic political instability gripping some key oil - producing regions, and
the climate volatility and pollution - related disease resulting from continued fossil fuel use, Japan's current energy economy is far from secure.
Now a new study assesses which people are most vulnerable to
climate volatility, and asks how we might reduce the impact of these extreme events.