Climate Change and Vulnerabilities in Colombia

Colombia has been strengthening processes and learning regarding the assessment of vulnerability to Climate Change. Starting with the Third National Communication, that will be signed in 2017 to the United Nations Framework... [ view full abstract ]

Colombia has been strengthening processes and learning regarding the assessment of vulnerability to Climate Change. Starting with the Third National Communication, that will be signed in 2017 to the United Nations Framework Convention, new approaches are presented both to methodologies and to the results of a comprehensive analysis for the national territory. Based on the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), frameworks are proposed that interweave conceptual dialogues between disaster risk approaches and climate risk analysis, including the latter Component of vulnerability.

The present paper seeks to highlight the main challenges facing the country, and what the results were based on the methodology that integrates IPCC approaches from the AR5, where social, economic and ecosystemic factors are identified, among others, which have the effect of creating or generating elements that increase or decrease vulnerability to climate change in a territory.