Abstract International efforts on climate breakdown have focused on reducing climate-damaging emissions. They have basically failed: that can now be seen, as the Conference of Parties (CoP) system declines into near farce, and politics bites back against climate action, while temperatures and impacts accelerate. As we face an increasingly chaotic world, climate adaptation provides an essential pathway to resilience and disaster-readiness. It’s not only about reducing our exposure to damage but also about transforming our ways of life to live with, and in what ways are possible even make the most of, the new, hotter, more difficult reality. There’s no longer any doubt that some level of climate breakdown is inevitable, and, rather than denying this, we must focus on how to adapt to it, in a manner that can bring people together to face the coming storms, and so ultimately perhaps bring them (us) together to stop the storms getting worse.
Eastoe et al. (Thu,) studied this question.