Climate change vulnerability and the identification of least developed countries

Matthias Bruckner

CDP Background Papers from United Nations, Department of Economics and Social Affairs

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: economic vulnerability; least developed countries; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F5 O1 O19 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2012-06
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