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The Vulnerable Twenty Group

Index The Vulnerable Twenty Group

The Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) is a cooperation initiative of countries systemically vulnerable to climate change. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 37 relations: Advocacy, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Climate change, Climate change adaptation, Climate change mitigation, Climate Vulnerable Forum, Costa Rica, Country, Credit rating, Debt relief, Developing country, East Timor, Ethiopia, Fiscal space, Ghana, Government debt, Gross domestic product, International finance, International Monetary Fund, Investment, Kenya, Kiribati, Madagascar, Maldives, Nation, Nepal, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Solvency, Tanzania, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam.

  2. Politics of climate change

Advocacy

Advocacy is an activity by an individual or group that aims to influence decisions within political, economic, and social institutions.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Advocacy

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Afghanistan

Bangladesh

Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Bangladesh

Barbados

Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Barbados

Bhutan

Bhutan (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་ཁབ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan, is a landlocked country in South Asia situated in the Eastern Himalayas between China in the north and India in the south.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Bhutan

Climate change

In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Climate change

Climate change adaptation

Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to the effects of climate change.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Climate change adaptation

Climate change mitigation

Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Climate change mitigation

Climate Vulnerable Forum

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) is a global partnership of countries that are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change. The Vulnerable Twenty Group and climate Vulnerable Forum are international climate change organizations and politics of climate change.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Climate Vulnerable Forum

Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Costa Rica

Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Country

Credit rating

A credit rating is an evaluation of the credit risk of a prospective debtor (an individual, a business, company or a government), predicting their ability to pay back the debt, and an implicit forecast of the likelihood of the debtor defaulting.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Credit rating

Debt relief

Debt relief or debt cancellation is the partial or total forgiveness of debt, or the slowing or stopping of debt growth, owed by individuals, corporations, or nations.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Debt relief

Developing country

A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Developing country

East Timor

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco. The western half of the island of Timor is administered by Indonesia.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and East Timor

Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Ethiopia

Fiscal space

Fiscal space is the flexibility of a government in its spending choices, and, more generally, to the financial well-being of a government.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Fiscal space

Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Ghana

Government debt

A country's gross government debt (also called public debt or sovereign debt) is the financial liabilities of the government sector.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Government debt

Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Gross domestic product

International finance

International finance (also referred to as international monetary economics or international macroeconomics) is the branch of financial economics broadly concerned with monetary and macroeconomic interrelations between two or more countries.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and International finance

International Monetary Fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.

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Investment

Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources to achieve later benefits".

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Kenya

Kiribati

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati (Ribaberiki Kiribati),.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Kiribati

Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Madagascar

Maldives

The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Maldives

Nation

A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Nation

Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Nepal

Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Philippines

Rwanda

Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Rwanda

Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Saint Lucia

Solvency

Solvency, in finance or business, is the degree to which the current assets of an individual or entity exceed the current liabilities of that individual or entity.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Solvency

Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Tanzania

Tuvalu

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Tuvalu

Vanuatu

Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu; Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is an island country in Melanesia, located in the South Pacific Ocean.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Vanuatu

Vietnam

Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.

See The Vulnerable Twenty Group and Vietnam

See also

Politics of climate change

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vulnerable_Twenty_Group

Also known as The Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20).