November 12, 2010

Groundbreaking “Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010 – the State of the Climate Crisis” report launched “laying bare the sheer scale of the breath and scale of the human impacts of climate change”

“The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010. The State of the Climate Crisis” is being issued by DARA and the Climate Vulnerable Forum working in conjunction with leading international thinkers on the 3rd of December in London. The report is a new tool which aims to assess the vulnerability of our world to the many effects of climate change as communities virtually everywhere are facing them- each in different ways.

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010 addresses key questions related to the human impact of climate change: How is climate change impacting us today? What does it mean to be vulnerable to its effects? Where is harm being felt? And what can be done to resolve it?

The report assesses the vulnerability of the world and 184 countries to different climate impacts with barometer indications of intensity from Low, Moderate, High, Severe through to Acute vulnerability.

• Mohamed Nasheed, the President of the Maldives, humanitarian expert Ross Mountain will speak at press conference along with former President of Costa Rica José María Figueres and John Ashton, the UK’s Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change.