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Key risks related to climate change
Key Risk
• Lower yield and/or crop failure can lead to
economic losses/destruction of livelihoods/
exacerbationof poverty and reduceddevelopment.
• Increased risk of food insecurity leading to
malnutrition of those communities that are
depending on these crops (with the highest risk to
the poorest), and subsequent risk of harm or loss
of life due to malnutrition.
• Potential loss of biodiversity (including endemic
species) and degrading of the capacity of
ecosystems to provide important ecosystem
services (including hydrological). Loss or decrease
of wild food options.
• Increased mortality and morbidity, illness and
increased burden on health-care systems.
• (Pan) epidemics.
Summary of key hazards, vulnerabilities and risks
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Climate Hazards
Warming
• Rising mean land
temperatures
• Increasing
frequency and
extension of vector-
borne diseases
(malardia, dengue,
Zika) into higher
elevations.
Key Vulnerability
• Heavy reliance of winter tourism economy on steady snow
cover
• High geographic exposure of agricultural and farming land,
homes, property and assets, including physical exposure of
rural and urban populations to potentially flooded areas
• Ageing energy infrastructure located in downstreamflood-prone
areas
• Poor landmanagement and spatial planning practices
• Limited capacity of local and national public institutions to
respond immediately to natural disasters, as well as to adapt
to increased floods
• Underdeveloped capacity to respond to outbreaks of vector-
borne diseases (communities without prior experience are
more susceptible).
• People already facing other stressors (such as poverty and
malnutrition) are particularly susceptibility, especially where
population density is high (big cities).
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