Each of the 22 indicators is individually aggregated from various data sources and models and then combined to determine a country's
overall climate vulnerability, measured by impact to share of GDP and mortality (as these impacts are comparable across the wide range of countries).
Not exact matches
For birds and amphibians, high
climate change
vulnerability was relatively similar across scenarios for 2050, but estimates diverged by 2090, increasing
overall by factors of 1.42 and 1.25 respectively.
The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the
overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce
vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of
climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»
The article tries to review the
overall situation of
climate change in South Asian context and also explains various reasons of this
vulnerability from different dimensions.
«In all of these places, the amount of rain pouring down in one day broke local records — and while each of these individual events has been caused by a number of different factors, we find a clear
overall upward trend for these unprecedented hazards,» says the lead author, Jascha Lehmann, a PIK researcher into
climate impacts and
vulnerabilities.