Preview 2024: Climate adaptation must shift from strategy to action, social justice key – think tank

Germany made dealing with the consequences of climate change more binding in 2023, and it must now use this momentum to step up implementation, says Christian Kind, adaptation head of programme at think tank adelphi. Spreading the costs in a socially just way should be a priority, Kind told Clean Energy Wire. Policymakers throughout Europe need to ensure that standards determining how homes or cities are built or maintained account for a changing climate and minimise the impacts of wildfires, droughts and heatwaves.