Welcome to Zero. I am Akshutrati. Today, funding, flooding and floating.

Three years after the Paris Agreement was signed, then United Nations chief, Ban Ki-moon,

saw there was progress on commitments to cut emissions, but almost none on adapting to climate impacts.

Today, close to 4 billion people live in environments that are highly vulnerable to climate change.

And so, Bunky Moon, alongside other world leaders, created the Global Commission on Adaptation

to promote solutions and figure out how much it might cost.

The answer is around $2 trillion by 2030.

It's hard to move that kind of money without a big plan.

So after they had the figure,

Ban Ki-moon and his colleagues created another initiative,

the Global Center for Adaptation,

to act as a Solutions Broker

and to figure out how to finance adaptation projects.

Now, I've said the word adaptation a lot, but what does it mean?

If you talk about climate adaptation, people really get very tired very quickly because it's very abstract.

But it's also, it's about people. It's about a small hall of farmer using drought tolerant crops.

It is about a mother in, let's say, Bangladesh,

taking her family to a cyclone shelter.

It's very concrete stuff.

This is Patrick Furkuyan, the head of the Global Center

for Adaptation and my guest today.

While climate adaptation might seem vague, it is easy to visualize.

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