The policy response to climate change has so far focused on mitigation — that is, reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But we know that even if all emissions ceased today, some degree of climate change is already inevitable. So action is also urgently needed in another domain: adaptation for the changes ahead.
International discussions are focusing on a ‘post-2012 regime’, a reference to the end of the Kyoto Protocol’s first period of …
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