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The challenge of the age

Climate adaptation

The challenge of the age

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Adapting to climate change is urgent, feasible and woefully underfunded, argues Edward McBride

The challenge of the age

The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid

And poor countries will need help to do so

To those who have...

Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier

Unfortunately they are not in abundant supply

The big and the little

Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones

But they can achieve a lot if coordinated

Of heat and harvests

A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change

But more is still needed

Look around you

The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation

Big ones are waking up to the fact

Making the money available

Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation

Otherwise the world will be poorly served

Common sense

The rich world is wrong to think that climate impacts in poor countries don’t matter

There is a compelling moral case for rich countries to do more to help poor ones adapt

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The world divided

The world China wants

The world divided

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China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others. It may yet succeed, says David Rennie

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