The Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN) ranks 185 countries on both their readiness for the progressing climate crisis, as well as the factors that make these countries more or less vulnerable to climate change’s range of negative effects.
The countries with the lowest vulnerability scores and the highest readiness scores will be the ones less affected by climate change: including Norway, Finland, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, Iceland, New Zealand, Germany, the UK, Austria, and Australia.
Conversely, the countries with the highest vulnerability scores and the lowest readiness scores will struggle. Topping this list of the countries set to me most affected by climate change are Chad, the Central African Republic, Eritrea, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Liberia, and Mali. Invariably, these nations tend to be among the world’s poorest, as well as the ones situated close to the Equator – countries that are already among the planet’s hottest, and that only stand to get hotter.