CLIMATE ADAPTATION
Adaptation will take center stage at COP30
Beyond the tragedy, the catastrophic floods in Rio Grande do Sul in 2024 made one thing abundantly clear: Brazil’s cities and states require robust climate adaptation measures. Photo: Rafa Neddermeyer/EBC
Years of record droughts in the Amazon, the unprecedented flooding in Rio Grande do Sul in 2024 and even the catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Melissa in the Caribbean this week give credence to COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago’s affirmation — in his latest open letter ahead of the global conference kicking off on November 10 — that “the age of warnings [has given] way to the age of consequences.”
The world’s pressing climate task is no longer mitigation, with the goal of restricting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius having passed the planet by, as UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced this week. Instead, the focus now is…
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