The impact of climate change varies by sector.
Transport is no small piece of the climate change pie: the sector represents approximately one-quarter of global CO2 emissions.
Climate change and public sector debt are two of the biggest issues for modern governments and they come together in the vexed question of how far the state should intervene in energy markets.
In the light of climate change, the building sector is required to implement large scale high-performance buildings.
If nations do not make concrete promises and legally binding agreements to address climate change, the private sector may outpace them quickly enough to make an impact.
Despite changes at the margin (e.g., smart grids, energy efficiency, solar, wind, etc)., and an increasingly aware public about the perils of climate change, the energy sector has not found or been exposed to the disruptive equivalent of software.
Also needed is more and better research that identifies the consequences of climate change on different sectors.
Adjustment also has important implications for the social integration of stakeholders, which has been shown to improve resilience to climate change in other sectors (Tompkins and Adger 2004).
When combined with supportive government policy and following the lead in tackling climate change for other sectors, like urban, transport and energy planning, a planned approach by the health system is clearly a 'no regrets' path that will ultimately reduce the impact of climate change on the health system (55).
The ACT framework is also informed by approaches for adapting to climate change in other sectors including tourism (Simpson and others 2008), water management (e.g., Johnson and Weaver 2009), forestry (e.g., Spittlehouse and Stewart 2003), economic development (e.g., USAID 2007), and community sustainability (e.g., Snover and others 2007).
