Concept Methodology: Vulnerable Groups
Summary
References to impacted and vulnerable groups were identified based on the Paris Agreement. For more information about our approach, please see our methodology.
Methodology
The taxonomy of impacted and vulnerable groups was compiled based on the Paris Agreement: “Acknowledging that climate change is a common concern of humankind, Parties should, when taking action to address climate change, respect, promote and consider their respective obligations on human rights, the right to health, the rights of indigenous peoples, local communities, migrants, children, persons with disabilities and people in vulnerable situations and the right to development, as well as gender equality, empowerment of women and intergenerational equity.”
Additions were made to capture semantically-related terms such as ‘girls’ and ‘underrepresented’, ‘marginalised’ and ‘disadvantaged’ groups, peoples and communities to improve the recall of relevant terms. The taxonomy was adapted to match the 3 hierarchies required for the tool and additions were made to capture acronyms, synonyms, and other grammatical expressions of the concepts within the taxonomy. Learn more about our taxonomy methodology.
Changelog
- Removed the term most vulnerable from the category Vulnerable groups
- Removed the term more vulnerable from the category Vulnerable groups
- Created the term future generations for the category Children
- Created the term boy for the category Children
- Created the term vulnerable community for the category Vulnerable groups
- Merged the category Women with the category Girls to create the category Women and girls
- Created the term marginalized community for the category Vulnerable groups
- Created the term under-represented community for the category Vulnerable groups
- Created the term disadvantaged community for the category Vulnerable groups
- Created the term impacted community for the category Impacted people
- Merged the category Vulnerable groups and Impacted people into the category Vulnerable groups
- Created the term PWDS for the category People with disabilities
- Amended the term indigenous groups / people / communities to avoid false negatives
- Created the term low-income persons for the category Vulnerable groups
- Renamed the category Local communities to Local and rural communities
- Created the term rural communities for the category Local and rural communities
- Created the term remote communities for the category Local and rural communities
- Created the term people with chronic diseases for the category People with chronic diseases
- Amended the term people with disabilities to avoid false negatives
- Created the term gender for the category Women and girls
- Created the term youth for the category children
- Created the term young people for the category children
- Created the term ethnic groups for the category Vulnerable groups
- Created the term minority groups for the category Vulnerable groups
We measured the performance of this concept by manually labelling a test set and comparing the labels to annotations made by this method. We will continue to update this section as we improve our approach for detecting this concept.
Over time we will use these statistics to evaluate which concepts are better to detect using machine learning models vs linguistic rules.
| Precision |
Recall |
F1 |
Support |
| 0.79 |
0.4 |
0.54 |
20 |