This policy brief addresses the difficulties of determining vulnerability through global indices and gives recommendations on how to use and interpret them including in the international climate policy context. The policy brief is based on a comparison of country rankings of four common vulnerability and risk indices
Paris Agreement
Vulnerability
Global Indices
Adaptation
Monitoring
Evaluation
Policy
Leiter, T. and Olivier, J. 2017. Climate Change Policy Brief - Can climate vulnerability and risk be measured through global indices? Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, Bonn and Eschborn, Germany