ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Apart of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change, agreed in 2015, was the pledge by developed countries to provide a minimum of USD 100 billion a year from 2020 onwards, to assist developing countries tackle climate change through both mitigation and adaptation. They also created a new funding body called…
Tackling climate change, especially adapting to its adverse impacts, is a learning-by-doing process in which we should try a set of actions for around five years or so and then take stock of what worked and what didn’t, and then plan the next set of actions. The second set of actions should then expand on…
Why investing in the education of girls is a must The subject of adaptation to climate change has gone through two major phases already and is now on its third phase. The first phase was about identifying and stopping “maladaptation” to the future impacts of climate change. This was based on initial vulnerability assessments in…
In the historic Paris Agreement reached in December 2015 at the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all countries agreed to collectively achieve two global goals. The first was to keep the long-term global temperature increase well below 2 degrees centigrade, or if possible, below 1.5…