ABOUT BOOK

Adaptation to climate change has always been part of life on earth. Yet, ~according to the scientific literature – such as the Fifth Assessment Report ~of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the increased ~magnitude of global warming the planet is currently experiencing further ~exacerbates the negative impacts of climate change on people – increasing ~risk and reducing their capacity to adapt. This is particularly the case for ~marginalised people in the Global South living in poverty (IPCC 2014). ~Wide recognition that industrialised countries are overwhelmingly responsible ~for these changes has, albeit slowly, led to governments of industrialised ~countries increasingly financing climate change adaptation ~initiatives in the Global South.