In the next 30 years, the population of Chad will be the most vulnerable to climate change , while in Norway the problem should not affect the population at all.
This was supported by a new analysis produced by Verisk Maplecroft, a consultancy firm on climate risk. The group built the 2016 vulnerability index to climate change, which for the next three decades identifies the human populations that will suffer most from the impacts of these metamorphoses. The index combines the risk of exposure to climate change with the resources each country holds to cope with extreme weather events .Out of 186 states considered, Chad was the country with the most vulnerable citizens , followed by Bangladesh, Niger, Haiti and the Central African Republic. The safest populations, on the other hand, would be those of Northern Europe: Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Ireland and Norway
Italy is in 30th place, before Lithuania and after Portugal. A good position because it is together with the group of countries with a low level of vulnerability and a good degree of preparation . Despite this it is a country that will face numerous challenges to adapt to climate change. First of all, the rise in sea levels.
At the bottom of the ranking there are only African countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Eritrea. Chad closes the ranking. The countries most at risk, in fact, are the developing countries despite being the least responsible for CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. In addition to the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, the most vulnerable regions are Southeast Asia and Central America.
Each country has been assigned a risk level, ranging from "extreme risk" to "high", "medium" and "low". In North America and Europe, no nation falls into the first two boxes, and only 7 are labeled "medium risk" in these two continents. In contrast, Africa has 31 countries at "extreme" or "high risk" , followed by Asia with 16.
The report stresses the importance of channeling climate finance from developed to developing economies, in order to ensure that the poorest and most vulnerable are less unprepared to suffer the worst effects of climate change. The thorny issue is at the top of the priority list at the forthcoming COP 21, which will take place in Paris from 30 November. However, at the moment, it seems that the rich countries do not want to make serious and binding concessions to the poorest, fueling a rift between the North and the South of the world that foreshadows new tensions on a global level.
Here are the top ten of Verisk Maplecroft:
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