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Re: Conflict Makes Nations Vulnerable to Climate Impacts

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Conflict Makes Nations Vulnerable to Climate Impacts
>> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/conflict-makes-countries-vulnerable-to-climate-impacts-19715
> 
>> Syria, Libya and Yemen are among the countries whose ability to
>> withstand climate change shocks and stresses has deteriorated most in
>> the past five years, suggesting conflict makes people more vulnerable
>> to climate impacts, researchers said.
>>
>> The University of Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index (ND-GAIN) uses
>> 46 indicators to measure climate change risks to 180 countries and
>> how ready they are to accept investment that could help them cope
>> with more extreme weather and rising seas.
> 
> 
> 
>> The main contributing factors to the falling scores of the three
>> fragile states in the Middle East and North Africa, riven by armed
>> conflict, are increases in political instability, violence,
>> corruption and poor rule of law, according to the index.
>>
>> "Even without climate change, you're going to see that countries that
>> have done a poor job on their governance or economic systems are a
>> source of refugees, (and) because of conflict, they haven't been able
>> to serve their people, and things are deteriorating there in all
>> different sectors," said Joyce Coffee, ND-GAIN's managing director.
>>
>> But adding vulnerability to climate change ? which affects food and
>> water security, and less directly health and sanitation ? appears to
>> indicate "where the real flash points are," she told the Thomson
>> Reuters Foundation.
 
More people are worried about being shot or blown up than worry about
the weather. 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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