Being Green - 22 June 2018
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5th International Climate Change Conference – here in Cape Town.
So what has been happening? A lot of high-level talk and information input from academics, researchers, government and semi-government organisations and their staffers in the fields of agriculture and environmental management.
I think you can pick up from this – and the impressive credentials of the participants – that Climate Change is real, controversial yes, but real, that governments, research organisations, companies, are spending time and a lot of money paying attention to it, and talking - and hopefully actually doing something – about planning this Adaptation to Climate Change reality. There’s certainly a sense of urgency now, and about time some would say. A little short on hard facts and numbers though. Yes, this is unknown territory, but how do you measure what effects the adaptations are having, from the economic and physical point of view? We look forward to some hard facts and numbers.
So what has been happening? A lot of high-level talk and information input from academics, researchers, government and semi-government organisations and their staffers in the fields of agriculture and environmental management.
I think you can pick up from this – and the impressive credentials of the participants – that Climate Change is real, controversial yes, but real, that governments, research organisations, companies, are spending time and a lot of money paying attention to it, and talking - and hopefully actually doing something – about planning this Adaptation to Climate Change reality. There’s certainly a sense of urgency now, and about time some would say. A little short on hard facts and numbers though. Yes, this is unknown territory, but how do you measure what effects the adaptations are having, from the economic and physical point of view? We look forward to some hard facts and numbers.
