SEI’s Senior Research Fellow Richard Klein talks about the urgency for climate adaptation in an article written by the famous writer Andrew Revkin, published by National Geographic.
“There is momentum developing and it’s long overdue,” said Richard Klein, who signed on this fall to direct science and innovation at the Global Center on Adaptation, which is managing the adaptation commission’s work along with the World Resource Institute. “This is about a current risk that’s bad enough to take action to start with, and that is already increasing.”
Floods in Pakistan. Photo: Visual News Pakistan / Getty Images.
The most prominent signs of the rising profile of adaptation came with the launch in October of a Global Commission on Adaptation and a December commitment of $200 billion in climate finance over five years by the World Bank and partners.
The commission is led by the former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Bill Gates, and Kristalina Georgieva, Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank.
