What is climate change adaptation?
Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to actual or expected climate and its effects. This adjustment aims to moderate harm for people and nature while exploiting beneficial opportunities.
Climate change adaptation is the process of adjusting to actual or expected climate and its effects. This adjustment aims to moderate harm for people and nature while exploiting beneficial opportunities.
Climate change adaptation differs from mitigation because mitigation focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptation instead adjusts to impacts as they happen or takes steps before changes are apparent.
The Paris Agreement of 2015 requires nations to limit temperature rise to less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Cities often hold considerable responsibility for land use planning and disaster management under this agreement.
By 2018, only 15% of the Great Green Wall had been completed yet it restored over 12 million acres of degraded land in Nigeria. Planting roughly 30 million acres of drought-resistant trees across Senegal provided drinking water and new income sources for villagers.
Developing countries need between $215 billion and $387 billion per year which is 10 to 18 times current international public finance flows. The Adaptation Gap Report published in November 2023 reveals an annual finance shortfall of $194 billion to $366 billion.