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Climate Adaptation
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Climate Adaptation

Seizing the Challenge


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Qualities

  • Comprehensive
  • Overview

Recommendation

The World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change offers a comprehensive overview of why the world must adapt to climate change. Providing valuable insight, the report suggests that societies can prevent as much as 65% of the projected losses from climate change through “adaptive investments.” This subject is vitally important, but the authors have cast the whole report in arms-length passive voice, thus their phrasing undercuts the urgency of their subject and their message – and yet, it is urgent. getAbstract recommends this thought-provoking study to decision makers in government and the private sector, as well as to activists, academicians and investors – in short, to everyone who bears the brunt of climate change.

Take-Aways

  • Society must confront climate change, and its environmental and economic impact.
  • International agreements have not furthered the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
  • Businesses and governments should change their existing practices, for example, by constructing barriers around vital establishments, such as coastal power plants.

About the Author

David Bresch, Sean de Cleene, Juan José Daboub, Rabi Mohtar, Richard Saines and Wu Changhua are members of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Climate Change, which seeks to enhance the ability of societies to withstand climate change.


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