Issue 179: No longer the poorer cousin of mitigation?

Climate adaptation

COP30 gives adaptation financing a push 

Climate adaptation has often been seen as the poorer cousin of climate mitigation. 

Measures aimed at helping society prepare better for, and reduce vulnerabilities to, climate impacts are often underinvested. This is as governments and private investors focus more on designing policy and deploying capital towards containing such effects through the reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions.