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Brief Summary
Adaptation to climate change featured
very prominently during the Bali UN climate conference in December 2007.
Given the accelerating threats of climate change in particular for developing
countries, immediately increased adaptation efforts are needed. Now, after
agreeing the Bali Roadmap with the objective to finalise a new international
climate change agreement by 2009, it is time to assess the state of knowledge
on key questions which arise from the Bali Roadmap. These include aspects
like a streamlined definition of adaptation, the scale of, the responsibility
for and the instruments to generate increased funding, but also questions
of decision-making structures. The upcoming negotiations will have to address
these questions, in addition to those related to mitigation efforts in
order to avoid dangerous climate change. This briefing paper analyses the
decisions taken in Bali and discusses relevant questions with regard to
adaptation for the upcoming negotations, starting with the Bangkok Climate
Change Talks held in early April 2008.