To build climate resilience at the country or basin level, policy makers must figure out how to integrate success stories from local level project implementation into more strategic planning instruments at broader scales. This remains one of the crucial challenges of adaptation. Adaptation based solely on prioritisation of discrete actions – for example on infrastructure, institutions, or ecosystems – may lead to missed opportunities to build resilience towards a dynamically changing climate, where uncertainty and unknowns are expanding. This is where adaptive governance capacity – that is, the ability to apply adaptation measures in practice from community to national and basin scale – is key. In turn, adaptive governance capacity is the result of a host of assets such as local knowledge, access to resources, leadership, mobilisation, and financing
Climate Change, Resilience, Changement climatique, Résilience, المرونة, التغير المناخي