Climate Change Blog 2: Brazil Vulnerability and Adaptation Index
Overall Brazil Vulnerability
According to the Climate Vulnerability Monitor, Brazil presents a low to moderate vulnerability on weather disaster and habitat loss but high on health Impact and economic distress. These two vulnerable factors can be seen in the higher epidemics of waterborne vectors such as Dengue in many urban areas and vector-borne sickness such as Malaria and Yellow Fever which appears in the central and northern areas of the country.
Floods in Brazil is a common event due its climate condition, change of river infrastructure and unplanned urbanization, a fact that create both health impacts and economic distress on affected population.
On the other hand variation of rainfall has been affecting agriculture production, and since agriculture accounts for a large share of exports in Brazil this vulnerability causes great economic distress in special for poorer farmers.
According to the Global Adaptation Index, Brazil lies in a good position to face, to adapt and to increase its resilience to climate change. Important actors to demonstrate country`s readiness is the power of governmental institutions.
In the case of Brazil a legal article of Federal Constitution establishes “All have the right to an ecologically balanced environment which is an asset of common use and essential to a healthy quality of life, and both the Government and the community shall have the duty to defend and preserve it for present and future generations”.1
However, the environmental legislation is not well enforced n Brazil, because of the size of the country and conflict of interest that drives economic development in an unsustainable way.
This can be verified by the worst indexes on infrastructure related to energy sensitiveness and transport infrastructure.
Infrastructure Worst Performer on Global Adaptation Index
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81.0 % | 0.810 | ||
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5.50 % | 0.945 |
References
1) Chapter 1 Program and Actions Related to Sustainable Development
http://www.mct.gov.br/index.php/content/view/328801.html
Last accessed 05/02/2012
The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010
http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/
Last accessed 05/02/2012
Global Adaptation Index
Last accessed 05/02/2012
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06 Feb 2012
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Patricia Perez Costa
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