Measuring the Socio-economic Pain of Climate Stress in Ghana with Reference to Nepal

Paper Abstract: By 2050, the poor communities of Africa and Asia will be most vulnerable to climate change. This projection of Stern (2006) and IPCC (2001) reveals the future intensity of climate stress. This context is a motivation behind the cross-country and cross-continent study on climate change to understand climate pain and implications. This paper empirically examines climate change and stress from socio-economic and ecological dimensions. It assumes that climate stability may bring prosperity to the communities. Employing cross-country time series data sets of climate change and socio-economic losses in Ghana and Nepal, the paper uses the climatic econometric and ARDL models. As a result, climate change has increased climate stress with climate pain as socio-economic losses and damages in both countries, Ghana and Nepal. Relatively, the climate change in Ghana is higher than in Nepal. The distribution of climate stress is excessive at the local level, where the institutional mechanisms are ineffective. As an alternative, various indigenous skills are major adaptive measures. Climatic migration in Ghana is relatively higher than in Nepal.