Hello and

I'm Christina Figuero and I'm Paul Dickinson.

Today we're going to discuss the adaptation and resilience agenda.

How can the world reach a place where it is more resilient to the changes that we're now going to experience

to ensure that we can still thrive in the coming decades.

Plus, we speak to Emma Howard Boyd,

chair of the Environment Agency

and Commissioner on the Global Commission on Adaptation

with overall responsibility for adaptation in the UK.

Thanks for being here.

So today we're going to talk about adaptation and this is the first time that we've

covered this topic in this podcast so far we have always talked to some degree

about what we call mitigation which is the attempt to stop emitting

climate change and gases into the atmosphere.

But there is another very important part of the climate debate and that is around adaptation. Adaptation is the process by which we can

evolve human systems, natural systems in order to prepare for the changes that are now inevitable in our climate.

There will be whatever we do, there will be some degree of warming in the coming decades.

That will mean changes in rainfall patterns, it will mean

changes in crop yields, it will mean rising sea levels, and if we're going to

stay in a place where we can effectively manage climate change, we're going to have to adapt to those

changes.

Now next week, the Global Commission on Adaptation, which is a global project that was brought together by 20 heads of state, is going to release its flagship report. That report is going to go in

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