Mapping Climate Change Vulnerability

As this month's conference United Nations Climate Change conference in Durban nears, here is a map, which I first read about on this blog, of climate vulnerability as concluded in a study by Maplecroft:

As shown in the image above, the top ten most vulnerable countries are:

1. Haiti
2. Bangladesh
3. Zimbabwe
4. Sierra Leone
5. Madagascar
6. Cambodia
7. Mozambique
8. Democratic Republic of the Congo
9. Malawi
10. Philippines 

The study combines socioeconomic factors, including such items as poverty and rate of population growth, with physical factors, such as the likelihood of natural hazards occurring.