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Climate change vulnerability assessments

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UNEP-DHI Partnership, UNEP-DTU, CTCN
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Climate change vulnerability assessments help establish understanding of the extent to which changing climate will affect the system in question (e.g. basin, water use sector, country, city, etc.). The concept of vulnerability itself has various definitions, however, broadly used definition by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) outlines three key components of vulnerability – exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity.

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