Adaptation to climate change, the topic of today at Cop26 in Glasgow, is how countries and communities adapt to the consequences of the climate crisis. This is different from climate change mitigation. Mitigation seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adaptation seeks to reduce the damage of heating. These damages are desertification, drought, heat waves, and on the other hand cyclones, floods, floods, sea level rise. The UN Climate Convention, the Unfccc (which organizes the Cops) manages an Adaptation Fund established by the Kyoto Protocol to help less developed countries adapt to the consequences of the climate crisis.

Source: Huffington Post November 10, 2021 02:38 UTC