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The Report “Just transition for climate adaptation” highlights the important role of adaptation action for large multinational corporations that aim to achieve a just transition. Its focus is on how businesses can adapt to minimize climate change risks and impacts in a just and equitable manner.

More attention has to be given to the needs of developing countries when it comes to climate finance, climate adaptation and loss and damage. To date, the focus has been largely on avoiding climate change by cutting emissions but we must acknowledge that climate change is here to stay.

A third of Pakistan flooded. Europe’s hottest summer in 500 years. The whole of Cuba in a blackout. COP 27 will be a key milestone for multi-stakeholder actions and partnerships across the key five issues of nature, food, water, industrial decarbonization, and climate adaptation.

Most of the emission reduction actions focus on the energy, transport and forest sectors, which are the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The initiatives presented included the development of renewable power, the promotion of electric vehicles and the restoration of forests.

Climate change does not directly cause heavy rainfall or drought, but it makes these naturally-occurring events more extreme and can lead to weather-related disasters such as the widespread flooding in Pakistan. As global temperatures rise more extreme weather events will occur in new locations.