Excellent Climate Adaptation Examples from Around the World

The Global Commission on Adaptation published an article that included 12 examples of climate adaptation from countries around the world that they deemed to be great adaptation models.

The consequences of climate change, like rising seas, fiercer storms, erratic and severe rainfalls, acidic oceans, and higher temperatures, impact countries, and some are more vulnerable than others.

The Global Commission on Adaptation has also published a report, Adapt Now: A Global Call for Leadership on Climate Resilience, in which it argues that investing $1.8 trillion in climate adaptation globally from 2020 to 2030 could generate a good return of $7.1 trillion in net benefits.

The article says that some countries have adopted climate adaptation actions, successfully using innovative and forward-thinking solutions to adjust to the new reality.

Some examples of climate adaptation mentioned in the article are the following:

• The “Room for the River” in the Netherlands,
• the Thames Barrier in the UK,
• building resilient homes in the Philippines after a strong typhoon in 2009,
• using data to prevent bushfires in Australia,
• protecting people from extreme heat in Germany and India, and
• many other examples.

Click on the link below to read more about these great climate adaptation examples that countries are doing:

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• By Rizky Maharani – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
• By NASA – Cropped from Image:Africa satellite plane.jpg., Public Domain, Link