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Professor Taylor Pushes for Mainstreaming Actions to Deal with Climate Change

"THE SWELTERING heat being experienced on the island is a heady reminder of the need to not only prioritise, but also scale up climate change planning and response actions.

“Climate impacts the standard and quality of life that we live and, therefore, we need to see greater urgency in really mainstreaming actions to deal with it; actions that go beyond a project, actions that are anticipatory, actions that have really transformative effects for the society,” said climate scientist Professor Michael Taylor.

“It is so obvious that climate is outstripping or outpacing our actions towards dealing with it. It is a distressing situation,” added the co-lead for the Climate Studies Group Mona and co-author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on the impacts of global warming, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change."

 

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Published on 04 Jul, 2019

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