Compliance strategies to deliver climate benefits
Climate change increasingly threatens the health of our planet and the stability of our economies at the local, regional and global levels. Many countries are already suffering from climate impacts—severe water shortages, intense droughts and wildfires, and record-breaking floods, along with disappearances of indigenous species and outbreaks of invasive ones. Communities in coastal areas and islands must also brace for impacts of ocean warming and sea level rise, including shoreline erosion and the intensification of hurricanes and typhoons, which fall into a new category of “super storms”.