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Put equity first in climate adaptation

Focusing on the bottom few per cent, not averages, is the best way to tackle poverty, argue Mark Pelling and Matthias Garschagen.
  1. Mark Pelling

    1. Mark Pelling is a professor of geography at King’s College London, UK.

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  2. Matthias Garschagen

    1. Matthias Garschagen is a professor of geography at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

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A woman stands with her children in her home which was destroyed by the winds of cyclone Idai

A family shelters from the rain in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai. Credit: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty

In September, the United Nations will set out a global agenda for helping communities adapt to climate change through the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As nations draw up their strategies, we call on them to put equity first.

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Nature 569, 327-329 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01497-9

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