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In the WBG report, it is said that cross-cutting approaches have a high potential for addressing climate resilience at scale but most organisations and donors underutilize them. How can we make these approaches easier to implement so that adaptations are  more efficient?

How can we as individuals make the most effective change, what should be our first step in tackling the climate crisis we're living in?
//Molly

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Within a democratic and free society, the population is offered a lot of choice and their behaviours reflect this.  Considering that a lot of these behaviours result in a increased GHG emissions, Do you think that democracy is sufficient to guide us to meet the  1.5C target, or is a totalitarian approach required?

//Laura Tapping

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Is it up to us, the developed countries, to lead the way in which other countries should be developed?
Who are we to decide when at the same time we are not making real commitments to fight climate change? When at the same time, we are not the countries most affected by climate change.
//Paul

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Often it seems that traditional Academia can exist in a kind of bubble of its own. Do you think areas, such as the study of literature, should themselves be adapted to become a tool to educate on climate change? As Amitav Ghosh once put it: 'the climate crisis is also a crisis of culture'.

// Thomas

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How are the developing countries voicing out their opinion and enforcing the developed countries to help them?

Having attend COP24, a 2 weeks long conference, the developing countries spent mostly the first week lost in translation because of a language barrier. Poland, the host, was promoting "clean coal", not sure if it was a joke. In the second week, big countries like Saudi Arabia are having heated argument about not stopping or reducing their oil production (no surprise there given that it is their main economic source) which would affect the developing countries and island-lying countries.

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The Paris Agreement is not a law binding agreement, and there is no consequences to the countries who did not met their requirement (other than having an even higher goal in the country's next 5 year goal, which is again not law binding). Given that we are most likely to hit the 1.5degree mark in the next 12 years, developing countries and island-countries are quite forced to look into climate change adaptation.
- Zac

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Most of the countries which are considered as "developed" today have reached this level of wealth majorly by industrial practices. Some of them started this process more than two hundred years ago, time during which they have contributed to GHGs emissions and, therefore, global warming, considerably more than other less developed countries.
However, now that the consequences of G.W. are being felt, this wealthy countries are better placed to face the consequences, while other poorer countries, with less of a share of the "responsibility", are under considerably more threat.
Some authors argue that the costs a global transition to a real sustainable future must be shared proportionally to the historical responsibility on causing the problem in the first place.
What is your take in this?

//-Juan-

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Although adaptation is necessary to a certain extent, it is a timely and costly process (approx. $10bn a year). For this reason, do you believe that more emphasis should be placed on lessening the future effects of climate change rather than 'adapting' to them?

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What do you think should be the role of us as individuals in the fight against climate change and what issues should best be handled at a systemic level?
/Sofia

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The Paris Agreement has had mixed reviews when evaluating whether it will make a difference to compliance to climate change action, and whether it will force countries to act in time to make a difference. In your opinion, is the Paris Agreement a success? Do you think it focuses too much on mitigation rather than adaptation, especially for developing countries like Kiribati who will be worst affected by climate change in the near future?

// Laura Thomas

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Climate change can make it more difficult for communities to maintain public health. What are some good adaptation strategies to tackle and address public health risks to air quality, water quality, extreme heat, and waste issues related from anticipated climate changes?

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Climate change can make it more difficult for communities to maintain public health. What are some good adaptation strategies to tackle and address public health risks to air quality, water quality, extreme heat, and waste issues related from anticipated climate changes?

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//Pontus Haag

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Over the past 10 years politicians who deny climate change (such as Trump(US), Bolsanaro(Brazil) or Thierry Baudet (Netherlands)) are gaining support. How can we convince their followers Climate Change is real and need to be handeled now, as they want to believe the downplaying by those political leaders (not believing the facts science provides)?

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Given our current lack of action against climate change, the 2 degrees C warming scenario seems very unlikely, with scientists talking more and more about a 4 degrees C warming instead. Are there any adaptation models for a 4 degrees global warming scenario? 

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Given our current lack of action against climate change, the 2 degrees C warming scenario seems very unlikely, with scientists talking more and more about a 4 degrees C warming instead. Are there any adaptation models for a 4 degrees global warming scenario? 

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Raluca

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Does it really make sense for poorer countries to seek a "developed" status? Of course they should aim to secure that they have all the basic material prosperity that they need to stay alive and well. However since "developed" countries are ecologically unsustainable it seems that both "developed" and "developing" countries need to change (even if it's in different ways). Do you think that negotiation on abatement could become more constructive if both "developed" and "developing" countries first imagined what kind of world they would like to live in, and how countries could support each other to reach that vision, before the start of the negotiation?
/Angelica

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Climate perspective on current devastation in Moçambique

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Climate perspective on current devastation in Moçambique

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Do you see the current disaster in Moçambique as a telling example of climate change and urgent need for adapting strategies?

If yes, do you consider this to be depicted in media?

(Obviously a very complex question, but) how do you see the world community should deal with these kind of devastating disasters in an equitable, pro-active and resilient way in the future?
/Martina

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Based upon the fact that progress in climate change has been dreadfully slow if existent over the past two decades, what do you believe has changed to allow us to actually achieve any of the 1.5 or 2 degrees c climate goals
//Alastair

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Do you think in order to stay within safe limits of  CO2 levels
we need to invent technology such as carbon capture/storage technology i.e. technology that does not exist on the scale that we need it?

Tamara

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Some say that developed countries should stop aiming for economic growth in order to give developing countries space to growth. Do you think this is necessary, and if yes, how can developed countries shift away from economic growth as the main goal of their economy?
- Emmy

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What are your thougts on this kind of climate compensation? Is it a way to increase resiliance or rather a way for developed contries to continue their emissions?

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Given the relative impact of high-income countries' on Climate Change, what responsibilities do these countries have in building adaptive capacities for low-income countries? // Olivia

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Political adaptation in WEIRD countries in responce to changes in climate change policy

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Political adaptation in WEIRD countries in responce to changes in climate change policy

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In WEIRD countries (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic), implementing tougher carbon mitigation policies can lead to increased inequalities and political turmoil, which the yellow vest movement in France clearly showed. How can we make a transition into a fossil fuel society in a fair and just way? Do any of you have any good examples of smart and fair policies that can be implemented in a country like Sweden for example?

/Daniel I-E

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According to the text, adaptation reduce climate vulnerability and helps to build resilience.. What examples can you give in this regard?

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According to the text, adaptation reduce climate vulnerability and helps to build resilience.. What examples can you give in this regard?

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In your view, how sustainable development leads to effective adaptation?

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Do you think that adaptation to climate change, to stay in a 1.5 °C scenario, will be feasible within the dominating capitalist system?
// Celina

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Adaption to climate change is crucial in a 1.5°C (or even more in a 2°C) scenario. For being such an important topic, do you think states are putting enough resources and effort in adapting to climate change? - Do you think that at the moment states are only collecting the 'low hanging fruits' by just putting economically attractive measures in place? (Similar to what is actually happening with the whole mitigation...)
//Julia

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1. Developed countries more contributed to climate change by industrial revolution etc, but developing countries are more vulnerable to climate change. This is a matter of CLIMATE JUSTICE. But still developed countries are not aggressive to funding in adaption fund, GCF etc. How we can solve this problem and make developed countries more active. And are there any roles that youth can do with it?

2.  Even though,  there are  environmentally sustainable resettlement project it cannot fulfill the sadness to leave one's hometown. Is it possible to make resettlement project not only in an environmentally sustainable way but also in a social sustainable way?

// Gyuri Cho