Policy challenges in climate adaptation in Sri Lanka: Identifying major gaps - Opinion

"Climate change is a complex challenge and well-designed policies for adaptation are necessary to face the impacts of it. Adaptation is a dynamic process of adjustment in response to changing conditions of climate. A pragmatic approach towards adaptation policy has to fulfil a few essential steps. They are: identify and evaluate likely impacts of climate change; assess vulnerability/adaptive capacity of key stakeholders; identify major gaps that affect effective actions against impacts; and, appraise alternative strategies for overcoming gaps so that the country can adapt to impacts in a successful manner," writes Dr Athula Senaratne, Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka in his opinion piece in The Island.