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Identifying Countries that are Particularly Vulnerable to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change: An Academic or a Political Challenge?

Richard J.T. Klein

DOI https://doi.org/10.21552/CCLR/2009/3/99



developed countries “to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change in meeting costs of adaptation to those adverse effects” (Article 4.4). Ever since the Convention was agreed in 1992, the question has arisen of what it means to be “particularly vulnerable”, and how it is decided which countries fall into this category. One would not normally expect that a country prefers to be seen as “particularly vulnerable” to the adverse effects of climate change, but a country that is classi

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