Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Fighting climate change with green infrastructure



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World Bank Blogs
Michael Wilkins, 2017/11/23


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According to NASA, 16 of the 17 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001. So—with climate change high on the global agenda—almost every nation signed the 2015 Paris Agreement, the primary goal of which is to limit the rise in global temperatures to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. However, with the acute effects of global warming already being felt, further resilience against climate change is needed.
 
To meet both mitigation and adaptation objectives, "green infrastructure" can help.



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