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Adaptation planning: Economics, population, and natural assets

Adaptation planning: Economics, population, and natural assets

From the course: Climate Adaptation and the Cost of Inaction

Adaptation planning: Economics, population, and natural assets

- [Interviewer] You said this will come at enormous cost. Could we talk about balance? I mean, how do you decide, as a business, as a government, as to where you put your resources? 'Cause this is huge, and we don't want to, I assume, take away from the drive to reduce emissions. - [Interviewee] No, and I think this is, I said I'd come back to what good adaptation planning is, and I think this is sort of part of the answer that question, which is that this is not simply a... When you think about where do you allocate these critical resources of, you know, which are always very scarce, you know, there are different angles that you need to come at it in, and I think, you know, what we are finding is really powerful is to start with data and facts, and there's plenty of data out there. It's not that it doesn't exist; it's just it's often scattered around the place, but, you know, what is going to be the impact on a…

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