Released earlier this week, The Climate Vulnerability Monitor predicts the negative impact of global climate change in the years to come. The report from the Monitor breaks down the prediction of how each country is vulnerable in different ways, whether through health, economics, or loss of land.

The Climate Vulnerability Monitor was prepared by both DARA, a leading humanitarian research organization, and the Climate Vulnerable Forum. The 11 nations that are experiencing the most direct impacts and expecting more to come: Bangladesh, Barbados, Bhutan, Kiribati, Ghana, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Tanzania, Vietnam, and Maldives. The Climate Vulnerability Monitor 2010 report looks at about 184 countries, including some of those that are currently affected by climate change impacts, and the estimated 350,000 lives lost each year as a result of climate change.

According to the report and Karl Burkart’s condensed table:

The report predicts a shocking future death toll of 5 million people by 2020 and 10 million by 2030 due to climate change if nothing is done now to prevent it from happening. Also, according to the report through tables and figures, the countries that are believed to be polluting the most are affected the least. For instance, North America’s stance is compared with East Africa on economic loss, habitat loss, human health, and extreme weather impacts with the latter experiencing higher extremes in each element.

But as a whole, the world is experiencing financial losses as well as health and human losses. According to the report, about $130 billion is now lost due to climate change — this number is predicted to increase with a total of $200 billion by 2020 and $275 by 2030. These numbers are based on the annual losses calculated in managing market instabilities, sea level rises, and disaster impacts.

“The Monitor sends a strong signal of caution. But it sends an equally strong signal of hope.”

Although the report predicts a grim future for the world, the report also gives hope for current leaders in changing the future to come. 50 measures are recommended for governments to implement right now in order to save the future from the Monitor’s prediction.

Some examples of the basic recommendations are:

Danger is present. Responses are cost-effective. Inaction is unconscionable.
Expand human and gender development efforts in most vulnerable countries.
Immediately reinforce responses to Major Climate-sensitive health concerns: malnutrition, diarrhea, infections, and malaria.
Invest in filling urgent research gaps.
Widely disseminate The Climate Vulnerability Monitor’s findings.
Reinforce national plans to limit climate impacts.

With the newly released report, pressure to make tangible progress in stopping the severe damage that is to come has increased. DARA and The Climate Vulnerability Forum hope world leaders see the Monitor as a wake-up call and start initiating their recommendations now.

DARA director Ross Mountain puts the report’s findings in a strong conclusion if nothing is done to prevent the damage predicted: