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adaptation need to support learning and improvement of the adaptation activities rather than just reporting, and to be flexible enough to capture local contexts as well as allow aggregate assessments at different scales over time. www.iied.org 3 ISSUE PAPER Contents Summary 4 1 Introduction 6 2 Measuring effective and adequate adaptation 8
Adaptation measures are urgently needed to safeguard development gains and to address the needs of developing countries which are especially exposed to climate change impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic has severely hampered most economic and social activities around the globe, unleashing food insecurity, unemployment, and displacement of people, among other concerns.
The European Commission adopted its new EU strategy on adaptation to climate change on 24 February 2021. The new strategy sets out how the European Union can adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change and become climate resilient by 2050.. The Strategy has four principle objectives: to make adaptation smarter, swifter and more systemic, and to step up international action on adaptation ...
1 de nov. de 2022 · Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity and the planet, an onslaught that will only intensify in the coming years even if the world begins to bring down greenhouse gas emissions. UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2022: Too Little, Too Slow – Climate adaptation failure puts world at risk finds that the world must urgently increase efforts to adapt to these impacts of climate change.
29 de may. de 2018 · However, not all disasters can be prevented. Effective adaptation to rising flood risk requires a diversified approach of interventions, which may include structural flood protection measures ...
24 de ago. de 2021 · Examining adaptation effectiveness is particularly cumbersome because adaptation measures are often difficult to delineate from development interventions, leading to difficulties in categorizing whether anything that builds adaptive capacity can be termed as adaptation (Eriksen & Brown, Citation 2011b; Lemos et al., Citation 2007; Owen ...
Many adaptation measures need to happen at the local level, so rural communities and cities have a big role to play. Such measures include planting crop varieties that are more resistant to drought and practicing regenerative agriculture, improving water storage and use, managing land to reduce wildfire risks, and building stronger defences against extreme weather like floods and heat waves.
