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Jan 30, 2024 · Climate change adaptation refers to actions that help reduce vulnerability to the current or expected impacts of climate change like weather extremes and hazards, sea-level rise, biodiversity loss, or food and water insecurity. Many adaptation measures need to happen at the local level, so rural communities and cities have a big role to play.
May 1, 2020 · Initiatives embedded in the context of one community can produce different outcomes in another. Finally, it can be difficult to distinguish climate adaptation from related activities, such as reducing risk to environmental disasters or alleviating poverty, which complicates attribution of successful adaptation efforts.
- Gigi Owen
- 2020
- Build resilient foundations with rapid and inclusive development. Poverty and the lack of access to basic services—including infrastructure, financial services, health care, and social protection—are strong predictors of vulnerability to climate change.
- Help people and firms do their part. It’s critical to boost the adaptive capacity of households and firms: many already have incentives to adapt, but they need help overcoming obstacles, ranging from a lack of information and financing, to behavioral biases and imperfect markets.
- Revise land use plans and protect critical infrastructure. In addition to direct support to households and businesses, governments must also play a role in protecting public investments, assets, and services.
- Help people and firms recover faster and better. Risks and impacts cannot be reduced to zero. Governments must develop strategies to ensure that when disasters do occur, people and firms can cope without devastating long-term consequences, and can recover quickly.
The National Adaptation Plan (NAPs) process was established under the Cancun Adaptation Framework (CAF) and enables Parties to formulate and implement national adaptation plans (NAPs) to reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience and to facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and ...
Oct 28, 2022 · This article is part of: Centre for Nature and Climate. While efforts are ongoing to mitigate global warming, climate change is already impacting people’s lives. Climate change adaptation involves adjusting our behaviour and building improved infrastructure to better cope with changing weather patterns. Raising more finance to help developing ...
Dec 30, 2019 · As the climate warms, the shade of trees can help protect the animals from heat. 5. Protect air quality. Climate change can lead to more tiny particles and allergens in the air, which can harm the respiratory and cardiovascular systems. So many communities are working to clean up the air.
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Feb 28, 2022 · Cultural adaptation is in fact what most people mean by ‘climate change adaptation’ — after all, spreading behavioural, social and economic change requires culture — and cultural ...
