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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has labelled 3.3 billion to 3.6 billion people as highly vulnerable to climate change, according to the most recent report. In an article in Climate Home News on 10 March 2022, SEI Senior Research Fellow Richard J. T. Klein said that defining vulnerability is a “political question.”
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In the latest Intergovernmental IPCC report on climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, Afghanistan, Haiti, Mozambique, Nigeria and Somalia are labelled “very high” when it comes to vulnerability, while India, Pakistan and the Philippines are in the “high” bracket. A total of 1.8 billion to 2 billion people are estimated to live in countries with low or very low vulnerability, such as Australia, Canada, Sweden and the UK.
Defining vulnerability is “a political question”, SEI Senior Research Fellow Richard J. T. Klein told Climate Home News, arguing that there is “no [single] truth when it comes to vulnerability because there are many different possible interpretations. Indices can tell you whatever you want them to tell you.”
Perspective / With the release of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report by Working Group II, SEI researchers from across the globe interpret the report's headlines on adaptation.
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