A timely reminder that countries need to step up adaptation to avoid human disasters
The Stockholm Environment Institute welcomes the urgent call on nations to step up action to adapt to climate change that the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) issued in its Adaptation Gap Report 2020 today.The report stresses that adaptation is a key pillar of the Paris Agreement and fundamental to avoiding serious human and economic damage. But it finds that implementation of adaptation plans is lagging considerably, not least because public and private financing for