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IDS BULLETIN-INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 15-+Publisher
INST DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
DOI: 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2004.tb00129.x
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There are two main policy responses to climate: prevention of climate change (mitigation) through reducing emissions and coping with its effects (adaptation). Mitigation has been given more priority in climate negotiations to date. Because the impacts of climate change are likely to increase in the coming years and there is growing realisation that vulnerable countries and communities will be disproportionately adversely affected, much more attention is now being paid to adaptation than was previously the case, particularly by development organisations. Defining climate change and adaptation carefully is critical to ensuring the success of actions promoting how adaptation can be mainstreamed in development. Narrow definitions of climate change, which ignore climate variability and donor focus on looking at the global environmental benefits of adaptation will mean that the adaptation needs of the most vulnerable will not be met.
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