
Patrick Verkooijen: Is climate change inevitable?
The Interview
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The Importance of Adapting to Climate Change
There is no way to adapt ourselves out of the climate breakdown. We still have to reduce drastically our carbon emissions sooner rather than later. Even if we were to live up to the 1.5-degree Celsius target, which you mentioned, and we're not on track, we see already the climate catastrophe around us. So we simply have to adapt off the changes of today, which will get much worse tomorrow. The rich world hasn't delivered on that. It's shameful that these promises have not been kept. Yet, $100 billion was supposed to flow from the global north to the global south. That has not happened.
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