Yet we have the least capacity to mitigate or adapt to these climate change effects".
Mr Montoya believes that more extreme weather conditions are one of the consequences of global warming, and that measures need to be put in place to adapt to these new realities and mitigate their effects.
The Committee on Climate Change has warned that we are not doing enough to adapt to the effects of a warming climate.
"In the U.S., Australia and Europe, there's a very substantial capacity to adapt to the effects on food — with money, technology, research and development.
Developing nations say they need to adapt to the effects of climate change and pay for cleaner, low-carbon energy technologies.
They also want a longer-term government aid programme to help them manage and adapt to the effects of climate change.
In addition to reducing emissions, the world should also be thinking about the need to prepare for and adapt to the effects of climate change, Prinn said.
The accord calls for the establishment of the Copenhagen Green Climate Fund to support immediate action to help curb emissions and to help communities adapt to the effects of global warming.
Bull urged the energy and climate change secretary, Ed Davey, attending a conference in Ireland on hunger and climate justice, to commit the UK's fair share to international funds to help children adapt to the effects of climate change.
More than three-quarters of the money was used for activities to cut greenhouse gas emissions, with about a sixth going to projects to help countries adapt to the effects of climate change.
Seventeen finance ministers, leading economists and heads of state say that it is "challenging but feasible" to raise $100bn£62bnbn) a year by 2020 to allow poor countries to adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce emissions.
