Assessing the cost of climate change and adaptation in South Asia
South Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change due
to high population density, poverty, and lack of resources for adaptation. The region exhibits a broad range of extremes: in topography, from the tallest mountains to the largest deltas to atolls barely above level; in precipitation, from arid lands to vast plains subject to unpredictable flooding; and in the environment, from glacial to tropical.