Step Up Climate Change Adaptation or Face Serious Human and Economic Damage – UN report

Nairobi, 14 January 2021 – As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step upaction to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN Environment Programme(UNEP) report finds. Adaptation – reducing countries’ and communities’ vulnerability to climate change by increasing their ability to absorbimpacts – is a key pillar of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The agreement requires its signatories to implementadaptation measures through national plans, climate information systems, early warning, protective measures andinvestments in a green future.

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Source https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/35077
Author Communications Division
Maintainer Communications Division
Last Updated January 25, 2023, 16:41 (UTC)
Created January 25, 2023, 16:41 (UTC)
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