Dispatch from COP20: The need for greater investment in adaptive capacity
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Business for Social Responsibility
By Cammie Erickson
In the middle of the COP20 climate talks, more than one million people were forced to flee Typhoon Hagupit in the Philippines. And headlines in the United States this year have focused on increasingly high temperatures, heavy rains, severe floods, and droughts across much of the country. There is increasing evidence that climate impacts are already upon us, but much of the COP20 negotiations have centered on emissions reductions.