This study report, Climate Change Vulnerability Mapping for Nepal, is a supplementary effort to the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) process in Nepal. The NAPA was mandated to assess the climatic vulnerability throughout the country and also assess the impacts. This study had adopted the globally recognized process of vulnerability that the vulnerability is the function of exposure and sensitivity. The NAPA process of vulnerability assessment was not limited to the GIS-based vulnerability only that it was spread from desk review to extensive public consultation and field verification. The GIS-based vulnerability was taken as a tool to verify the information collected through those processes and also to add value to the available data presentation process.
This report provides information on vulnerability to climate change and its magnitude in Nepal. This assessment was carried out by overlaying climate risk/exposure maps, sensitivity maps, and adaptative capacity maps following the vulnerability assessment framework of the United Nations' Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The study used data on the spatial distribution of various climate-related risk/exposure in 75 districts of Nepal. Based on this mapping assessment, the climactically most vulnerable districts have been identified for targeting the further adaptation planning and mobilization of financial resources to implement the adaptation programs.