Benefits of Adapting to Climate Change
September 14, 2019
Countries and corporations have only limited time to start adapting to climate change, an international commission recently concluded, also noting that investing $1.8 trillion by 2030 in five key areas would yield $7.1 trillion in benefits. Issues has explored some of what should be done, with analysts proposing national priorities to guide US actions and drawing a list of ways to increase the technical and institutional resiliency of the nation’s infrastructure—one of the key areas cited—to meet the extreme weather events expected with climate change.