Vulnerability, Adaptation and Climate Disasters: A Conceptual Overview

(MDGs) and to secure fairertrade as part of the Doha Development Agenda willalso be strengthened in 2005. After the mediaheadlines have faded, what impact will theseframeworks have on the lives of the poor and othersvulnerable to climate impacts? Will climatevulnerabilities be integrated in all these frameworkswith lasting benefits? Will the interests and voicesof those vulnerable to impacts be heard? Why areMDGs, climate change and trade processes runningin parallel tracks? And what can be done to linkthese processes synergistically in favour of thosevulnerable to climate change? These questions were central to the LinkingClimate Adaptation (LCA) Project that aimed toensure that poor people