What is the impact of climate change on social development goals? How can social development analysis and interventions reduce vulnerability to climate change and improve people’s resilience and adaptive capacity? Climate change is fundamentally a social development issue. The impacts of a changing climate –including increases in extreme weather events and rising temperatures – are acute and multi-dimensional, already affecting vulnerabilities, resilience and social inequities globally, and placing lives and livelihoods at risk. There is a consensus in the literature that climate change will have far-reaching consequences for social development goals and economic development more broadly, including poverty reduction, food and nutrition security, economic growth, gender equality, social equity, and health (FAO, 2016). Moreover, causes and consequences of climate change are linked to global patterns of inequality and social justice. Evidence indicates that climate change impacts are not borne equally – demographic and socioeconomic factors such as gender, age, livelihood strategies and poverty shape levels of exposure to climate change effects, vulnerability and resilience (Ribot, 2010; Lambrou & Nelson, 2010; Skinner, 2011).