The FS approach will make climate resilience, adaptation to climate change and reversing resource degradation central pillars of the livelihoods of the communities.
Although the assessment of interactivity and data varied both across countries and user experience, a general conclusion is that a geographic visualization tool, like VisAdapt, can make climate change effects and adaptation alternatives tangible and initiate discussions and collaborative reflections.
Only a small minority of respondents, however, had yet made climate change adaptation or prevention a top priority for their health department.
Making climate change adaptation a priority for local public health sectors, however, is challenged in current China due to a chronic lack of resources and limited awareness and knowledge about health impacts of climate change.
Formal regulations can nevertheless contribute to retaining local knowledge by making climate change adaptation and geographically differentiated solutions a focus area and by ensuring that such considerations are required in any planning.
Risk assessments of flooding in urban areas during extreme precipitation for use in, for example, decision-making regarding climate adaptation, are surrounded by great uncertainties stemming from climate model projections, methods of downscaling and the assumptions of socioeconomic impact models.
Also on the pragmatic side, the city is focusing on making sure that climate adaptation imperatives are taken into account during routine municipal operations.
We encourage customers in these sectors to plan for, and start making, the necessary changes for climate adaptation".
Developing countries will be hit the hardest of all, making them the critical locus for climate adaptation strategies.
The final winner is the Copenhagen Climate Adaptation Plan, which seeks to prepare the city for the threats posed by climate change by strengthening its defenses against flooding and making productive use of runoff water.
