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Climate Adaptation Finance: Garbage In, Garbage Out

A new study reveals the hard truth about the lack of real adaptation data.

Today in Science, a new study delicately uses a lot of words to tell us something that many have long suspected: we really don’t know what in the world is going on. The study, by three scholars at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, notes that pretty much all climate adaptation funds focus on inputs — how much has …

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