Moreover, the assessment reveals that in most vulnerable regions a double burden of existing destabilised livelihood conditions and additional climatic hazards is already visible and largely influences societal impacts of climate change. For example, flooding along the White Nile in Uganda and South Sudan hit vulnerable communities that were displaced due to conflicts and were thus uprooted again by flooding . Societal impacts and future risks of climate change to societies need to incorporate information about vulnerability and exposure-including capacities of people to cope and adapt . There is increasing evidence that individual and societal capacities to cope and adapt also depend on how governmental and national institutions can support people at risk . For example, climate information services depend on a functioning weather service. Likewise, social safety nets as an adaptation strategy require financial resources, which are often absent for most people in highly vulnerable regions. In addition, examples of national programmes that target most vulnerable groups, such as the free basic service programme in South Africa, show that next to the adaptation to individual hazards, strategies exist that aim to reduce systemic human vulnerability .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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