Collection details
CDP Background Paper |
Documents available under this collective title


![]()
![]()
CDP Background Paper, 15. Climate change vulnerability and the identification of least developed countries
This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs). Taking a sustainable development perspective, it argues that climate change should be seen as an aggravating factor of existing handicaps and many indicators used to identify LDCs already capture relevant structural vulnerabilities to climate change. However, the paper proposes some refinements in the LDC criteria to better capture vulnerabilities from natural disasters and in coastal areas. These refinements affected the vulnerability ranking in the recent triennial review, but had no ...
![]()
Available online: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/policy/cdp/cdp_background_papers/bp2012_15 [...]
Published by: United Nations ; 2012
This paper reviews the role of climate change vulnerability in identifying least developed countries (LDCs). Taking a sustainable development perspective, it argues that climate change should be seen as an aggravating factor of existing handicaps and many indicators used to identify LDCs already capture relevant structural vulnerabilities to climate change. However, the paper proposes some refinements in the LDC criteria to better capture vulnerabilities from natural disasters and in coastal areas. These refinements affected the vulnerability ranking in the recent triennial review, but had no impact the eligibility of countries for inclusion in and graduation from the LDC category
Collection(s) and Series: CDP Background Paper- No. 15
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Vulnerability ; Least Developed Countries ; ST/ESA/2012/CDP/15
Add tag
No review, please log in to add yours !