Full Title: Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience
Author(s): Global Commission on Adaptation and the World Resources Institute
Publisher(s): Global Commission on Adaptation and the World Resources Institute
Publication Date: September 9, 2019
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Description (excerpt):
Global leaders call for urgent action on climate adaptation; commission finds adaptation can deliver $7.1 trillion in benefits.
Global Commission on Adaptation report finds that investing $1.8 trillion globally from 2020 to 2030 in five areas of climate adaptation could yield $7.1 trillion in net benefits.
The Commission’s report highlights many economic, social and environmental benefits of adaptation. Climate impacts – such as super-charged hurricanes, floods, and wildfires – are becoming an increasingly urgent reality