When Climate Adaptation Intervention Risks Further Marginalization
Many climate adaptation interventions focus excessively on the effects of climate change and less on examinations of what drives vulnerability.
Cambodia’s climate vulnerability is magnified by its reliance on agriculture 30% of the population and almost a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product, according to the United Nations. Credit: UNDP Cambodia, CC BY-NC 2.0 22 February 2021
Many internationally funded climate adaptation projects “reinforce, redistribute or create new vulnerability” in developing countries, according to a new review led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) and the University of Oxford. Essentially, the paper argues, people in developing countries are worse off after climate change adaptation interventions are undertaken. Developing countries are already disproportionately burdened by the impacts of climate change.