Legal Liability as a Drive to Integrate Climate Change Risk and Adaptation (PPT)

摘要

Significant understanding today of the probable effects of climate change and its effects on physical assets/infrastructure: Increasing precipitation. Increased intensity of storm events such as flooding, ice storms, heavy winds and tornadoes. More frequent and severe freezing and thawing cycles. Growing number of summer "heat wave days". In the North, permafrost degradation. In coastal communities, rising sea levels.