Financing Climate Adaptation | Business Standard (India)

Jyoti Parikh:

Sharing the burden of climate risks imposed on the poor should be on the agenda, through a specific adaptation protocol linked to the UN Framework Conversion on Climate Change. Perhaps a specific protocol is needed, like the Kyoto Protocol for mitigation. Such a protocol, if developed, should give special consideration to see that the poor, especially women, are the beneficiaries. There are important moral and political imperatives for awarding adaptation equal status with mitigation in meetings on climate change. The initiative for this will have to come from the developing countries.

Source: Business Standard

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