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Chris Jackson: Surprise, You’ve Adapted!

2/12/2015

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PictureDr. Diane Husic
It’s a typical Wednesday night at the end of the semester and you find yourself locked in your room, wiling yourself to write that research paper that you were supposed to start months ago and is now due tomorrow.  That should give you an idea of what the treaty negotiations have looked like, except instead you’ve got 195 other people with you and you all have to agree on every. single. word.  No one said this treaty thing was going to be easy.
 
Now while that sounds like a great time, my ACS observer credentials don’t actually get me into the rooms where those talks happen.  Instead, this afternoon I made my way into a great session on bridging the gap between research and application for climate policy, led by Dr. Diane Husic of Moravian College.

Amongst the short panel speeches, Dr. Saleemul Huq’s stood out to me.  Representing Bangladesh, the most vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change, he described adaptation as the process of learning from doing.  The impacts of climate change are understandably remarkably different around the world and must be treated on a case-by-case basis.
 
Therefore, we need not only our scientific researchers and policy makers, many of whom are here at COP21, but also doers, the people who are on the ground, making changes.  In cases of climate, it just so happens that these people are often the ones who need to adapt the most, the poorest in the poorest countries around the world.  Bangladesh has been there, done that, and can serve as our adaptation model.
 
At the end of COP21, when our leaders (hopefully) identify our global targets, it will trickle down to the cities and local communities to implement these changes and adapt to our new climates.  We must be ready for that.  Field trip to Bangladesh anyone?

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Source: weadapt.org
4 Comments
Mr. Anderson
4/12/2015 10:31:21 am

# Help the children.

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Diane Husic
6/12/2015 09:54:11 am

Saleem is renown for his work on adaptation in developing countries and did a great job explaining this topic at the panel.

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taylor
6/12/2015 10:48:42 am

I'm not really sure I understand the point he is trying to make in this article. Adapting isn't necessarily the process of learning from doing. But I guess that it can be. Why is Bangladesh know as the most vulnerable country to the impacts of climate change?

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William Lewis Jr link
6/12/2015 03:31:58 pm

Hello Chris Jackson,

you stated that in your meeting with Dr. Saleemul Huq, he quoted adaptation as being “the process of learning from doing,” and that climate change’s effects varies place to place, therefore it should be treated on an individual basis. However, this seems to be very common knowledge. You also mentioned, when our leaders “hopefully” identify global targets, policies which will bring about change shall be trickled down.

Are you permitted to discuss some of the components in these new policies? What are some of the ideas to bridging the gap between research and application? How long will it take to determine these targets? How are they determined? And, are there deadlines for determining them?

I ask because you described these negotiation meetings as being comparable to: waiting to do one’s research paper until the night prior to its due date, when there were months in advance to prepare. If that theory be genuine, and applied to all 195 members (leaders), involved, then we as Environmentalists have already failed.

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