What is adaptation?

Why is adaptation needed?

For more information see:

The Government of Canada's Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Program provides funding for research and activities to improve our knowledge of Canada’s vulnerability to climate change, to better assess the risks and benefits posed by climate change and to build the foundation upon which appropriate decisions on adaptation can be made.  The link is: http://adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/home_e.asp.

For further reading:

IPCC 2001. Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Houghton,J.T. et al. (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Watson, R.T. and the Core Writing Team.  2001.  Climate Change 2001:  Synthesis Report.  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.  34 pp.