In a previous column (“Adapting to Climate Change in Developing Countries,” NYLJ, Oct. 8, 2010), I noted that adverse climate impacts are now all but inevitable for many countries, including the United States, but that the principal victims were likely to be citizens of those developing countries—largely in Asia and Africa—which had contributed the least to the Earth’s changing environment. In particular, I noted the urgent need for many developing countries to plan to adapt their urban land-use patterns, infrastructure and legal institutions to the prospect of rising sea-levels, coastal flooding, reduced and contaminated potable water, draughts, loss of vegetation and increased urban migration as interior cropland turns to desert.
Beyond the immense legal and institutional challenges these conditions are already posing for the developing world’s rapidly growing cities and vanishing farms, there is the small problem of money to pay for the broad range of adaptation required to permit civil society to survive in the most vulnerable countries.
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