Climate Change As Joe Biden pushes emissions cuts, what about climate change adaptation?

Before, we wrote laws to protect the environment from people. Today we also need laws that protect people from the environment.

As climate policy is starting to take shape in the Biden-Harris administration, there is one piece of the puzzle that has not yet found a clear home—climate adaptation.

There are two interrelated approaches to addressing climate change. The first is climate mitigation, which is focused on reducing greenhouse gases and advancing a transition to a no-carbon economy and society.

The second is climate adaptation, which is centered on the responses and preparations that address climate impacts. Popular concepts such as resilience and hazard risk reduction fall into this broad category of public policy and practice.

While we are only days into the administration, it is never too early to build a bipartisan coalition around climate policy that resonates in the here and now.

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