RT null T1 Step Up Climate Change Adaptation or Face Serious Human and Economic Damage – UN report A1 United Nations Environment Programme, K1 climate change K1 temperature K1 nature-based solution K1 climate change adaptation YR 2021 FD 2021-01 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/35077 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/35077 NO Nairobi, 14 January 2021 –As temperatures rise and climate change impacts intensify, nations must urgently step upaction to adapt to the new climate reality or face serious costs, damages and losses, a new UN Environment Programme(UNEP) report finds.Adaptation – reducing countries’ and communities’ vulnerability to climate change by increasing their ability to absorbimpacts – is a key pillar of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The agreement requires its signatories to implementadaptation measures through national plans, climate information systems, early warning, protective measures andinvestments in a green future. DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 21, 2026