Adapting to climate change requires diverse, proactive strategy

摘要

The damaging effects of climate change are affecting some global regions particularly hard. Long-term drought and flash floods have destroyed lives and property, and recent studies conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict that rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are likely to cause droughts and floods to occur with more frequency and intensity. So how are governmental authorities adapting to the challenges created by climate change?