BaCCC/Video Summaries/Adapting to a Changing Climate

Video Summary

Adapting to a Changing Climate (19:33)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWXV1TlEXo

• Due to the emission of greenhouse gases that trap heat in the atmosphere, we are experiencing the warming of the land, air and oceans, and this comes with numerous effects.
• Two main pillars of the global climate change convention are adaptation and mitigation, and it is everyone’s responsibility to mitigate enough to allow adaptation to be possible and effective.
• Adaptation involves changing behaviours and consumption and production patterns that are no longer sustainable.
• Climate change is causing changes faster than vulnerable populations and ecosystems can cope with and adapt to.
• Adaptation responds to risks and builds future resilience.
• Resilience means increasing capacity and enabling society and ecosystems to be able to recover from change; an essential part of this is learning.
• Communities can be more prepared for climate change if they are not poor.
• Helping people to prepare for extreme events is also important.
• Access to technology and services and quality infrastructure also contribute to climate-resilient societies.
• Climate change is global, but adaptation is local, and which adaptation measures need to be taken depend on the specific circumstances and impact each family, community and city is experiencing.
• The first-hand knowledge of communities can ensure that adaptation measures are effective and actually increase resilience.
• Adaptation also requires financial resources, and vulnerable developing countries need financial support to make the necessary investments.
• Strategies to build disaster and climate resilience should engage all sectors of society and government and require the input of all people involved.
• Adaptation helps our societies and nature cope with climate change, and communities need to decide what works for them.
• We need to spend money today in order to save money in the future.
• We have an opportunity to act now and make investments in adaptation that will have an impact in terms of the future.
• We do not have a Plan B, because we do not have a Planet B; we only have one planet, and so Plan A is addressing climate change.
• We will have to deploy new technologies to reduce the risks of climate change.