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  • 11 - Adaptation in Specific Geographies

  • from Part IV - Global Perspectives
  • Julian Caldecott
  • Book:
    Surviving Climate Chaos
    Published online:
    02 September 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 246-276

  • Summary

    The EU member states have massively documented climate change and their own vulnerabilities to it, as well as their efforts to prepare for its effects under scenarios that are worsening with every iteration of the climate models. Being the EU, member states, sub-national regions and cities are free to share, cooperate and learn, so together they offer a rich source of experiment and knowledge. Representing a quarter of UN members, many small island states are exceptionally vulnerable to climate change and are taking diverse and determined measures to survive, but several are now forced to consider a future in which their territories are entirely uninhabitable. In Africa the climate response is pragmatic and utilitarian, marked by resignation but also a confidence in Africans’ ability to cope and in the value of traditional knowledge-based solutions to climate problems. And the Americas have some strong examples of regional and south–south cooperation and local empowerment, and are sources of new thinking on the rights of Indigenous peoples and peace with nature.