It has been known for some time know that developing countries will be affected the most. Reasons vary from lacking resources to cope, compared to developed nations, immense poverty, regions that many developing countries are in happen to be the ones where severe weather will hit the most, small island nations area already seeing sea level rising, and so on.
German Watch published a Global Climate Risk Index in December 2009 that attempted to list the nations that would be affected the most from climate change based on extreme weather such as hurricanes and floods.
Between 1998 and 2007 they found these were the most affected nations:
-Honduras
-Bangladesh
-Nicaragua
-Dominican Republic
-Haiti
-Vietnam
-India
-Mozambique
-Venezuela
-Philippines
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