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These same processes show us where to intervene to ensure that hard-fought-for adaptation support reaches and benefits the communities that need it.
The analysis combines racial colonial capitalism and critical adaptation studies and reveals 8 processes by which political and economic elites profit from everyday adaptation measures like risk mapping and water management.
Finance and development industry insiders anticipate that the “adaptation market” will reach $2 trillion by 2030, heralding new investment opportunities. Their excitement about making 💵 off of vulnerable groups is troubling on its own, but how do they do it?
📢Some people are making handsome profits from efforts to reduce marginalized groups’ vulnerability to climate change. But how exactly is adaptation made into profitable activity? My new open-access article addresses this very question.
Same! See you in KY!
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Sadly, this means more of the same vulnerabilizing effects of inequality at every scale, as countries jockey to increase their relative value doi.org/10.1111/dech...
The latest twist on green growth approaches to climate change: the V20 group of highly vulnerable states has unveiled their new strategy of Climate Prosperity Plans. This repackaging of economic growth to confront climate change is only entrenching the very systems at fault.