Climate change presents risks and also opportunities; climatic changes are often associated with risks and other negative impacts but they also come with potential opportunities for certain people in certain places.
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The facts about climate change
What is climate change? Why is the climate changing? What has made the climate so unpredictable? How do we live with it? And how can we adapt to it without too much changes to our lives? These are important questions we all are looking for answers to. Climate change, everything changes. From the way we travel to the way we eat, to what we eat and perhaps also how we eat. Also, the way we enjoy the many things we do, also are affected by climatic changes.
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Things to know about climate change
Lesser known facts about climate change
Adaptation planning and resilience design
Quiz for Adaptation planning and resilience design
Managing climate risks in different countries
Developing, developed and the least developed countries, all suffer from the effects of climate change. Lets look at 6 places across the world and see how people adapt to climate change impacts.
Greenland
That is where most of the giant ice sheets are,
In 2021 higher than usual rate of rainfall, around 7 billion tonnes across 3 days in August, fell on the ice sheets instead of snow. This according to experts, might have meant that the ice sheets could have been more prone to surface melt, which can threaten to significantly hamper efforts to mitigate climate change.
Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest on the planet (after Antarctica) and any rain falling on its surface accelerates melting.The ice sheets there cover around 1.7 million sq km of glacial land ice, and potentially can raise sea levels by more than 7 meters if melted. In recent years in Greenland, rain has fallen further north, and more rain has fallen in winter. This is not normal for these regions, which usually get snow, not rain, in below-freezing temperatures.
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Climate impacts are different in different places
Transitional risks of climate change
Carbon management and decarbonization strategy
Climate finance and project development opportunities