Photo: UHH/Jantke Adaption in Namibia: soybeans are tested for their resistance to increasing water shortages.
Photo: UHH/Jantke Adaption in Namibia: soybeans are tested for their resistance to increasing water shortages. Viewed globally, it is above all individuals and households that are pursuing adaptation to the impacts of climate change; systematic networking of the various groups affected is lacking. This is the conclusion reached by an international team of experts from Universität Hamburg's Cluster of Excellence for climate research (CLICCS) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). Their meta-study was just released in the journal -Nature Climate Change. For their meta-study, the 30 authors analyzed more than 1,400 academic studies on climate change adaptation. By doing so, they offer the first global overview of which groups of actors are pursuing adaptation - and how. Their findings show that the global distribution of tasks lacks cohesion.
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