Climate change, Russian Federation: vulnerability & adaptation
The figure above shows the “Climate Vulnerability” of Russia; it’s suddenly clear that the main issue comes from the “Economic Stress” (the big red circle) that it supposed to won’t be fixed even in the next 20 years.
What does it means?
Basically this figure shows how the climate change would influence the economy of the country, and as for Russia its impact is huge because the agricoltural dependency of the country very high and the sufference especially for drouhgts has a huge impact.
By this second figure it’s clear the low capability of Russia to act against the vulnerability of it’s territory; it means that the even the public sector either the private one it’s not able (or very intricate) to allocate resources and set up new projects to improve the resilience of the territory and to improve the status quo.
Moreover the trend is alarming, because as we can notice, even though between 2002-2006 the Russia has done some step forward (reaching the 67° rank) from 2007 it has drop once again to previous inefficiency rank (83° in 2009 and 82° in 2010) probably caused by the huge forest burnings and droughts that has affected those lands.
Source: 1st figure: http://daraint.org/climate-vulnerability-monitor/climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/new-executive-summary-for-the-climate-vulnerability-monitor-2010/ 2nd figure: http://gain.globalai.org/country/russian-federation
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01 Feb 2012
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Luca Palma
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