ABSTRACT
For most developing countries, climate change adds another layer of complexity to already existing development challenges such as high levels of poverty and inequality, rapid population growth, underdeveloped markets, poor infrastructure and service provision and weak governance systems. Modelled climate projections suggest the impacts are likely to exacerbate these developmental challenges, ‘as more floods, more droughts, more strong storms, and more heat waves’ make development policy and practice more complicated (World Bank 2010: 1). Poor people are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, both because of their existing vulnerability, and because of their dependence on weather-dependent livelihoods.
