Its people also stand to lose the most because they have the least resources to adapt.
Generally US retailers have been able to exploit their bigger resources to adapt to the British market, tweaking their ranges, store size and pricing to suit.
Instead, the United States joined India and other developing countries in encouraging a focus on developing the technology and finding the resources to adapt to climate change.
It has expanded its range of services and resources to adapt to the ever-evolving needs of the research community.
And the poorest households, whose health, livelihoods, and housing are already precarious, have the fewest resources to adapt to change or recover from natural disasters.
In other words, poorer countries may have the resources to adapt to climate change as they become wealthier in the future.
Those in marginal areas, for example on the edges of deserts, will suffer most, along with those in countries with the least resources to adapt.
To date, economists had believed that global warming would not impact economic growth in wealthy countries, because it was assumed they would have the resources to adapt to a changing climate.
It is small businesses, which lack the leverage to negotiate third-party fees, or the resources to adapt their facilities, that are made most vulnerable by delivery's growth.
A common assumption among researchers has been that wealth and technology protect rich countries from the economic impacts of climate change, because they use these resources to adapt to higher temperatures.
The Bolivias and Chads and Mauritanias of the world argue that they are more vulnerable to changes in temperature, and have little or no resources to adapt to changes in the growing seasons or increased rainfall or — worst case — to relocate large numbers of people.
