Climate Change Adaptation: it's time for decisions now | GIZ

I can't believe this was in 2012!!! I'm watching in 2019 and it is even worse now!

While people may think that we already know enough about climate change, I beg to differ with such a notion because I believe that "Knowledge" of anything for that matter does not stop anytime but continues to grow because of new circumstances and unexpected events which we, the people have to address. What is constant is "Change" and that applies to all aspects of life as well as factors which affect it.

Its about time we looked at more than just economics to benchmark our success, without the health and wellbeing of our people and planet there is no economics!

8 years ago" "it is time for decisions NOW" the whole world 8 yrs later: "ummmmm"

Leodegardo, I think the video meant that we know enough to ACT on our knowledge so far, not that our knowledge is sufficient or that we can't learn more.

Sehr gutes Video. Mit was für einer Software ist es produziert worden?

a great video, btw, what did you use to make this video?

better we act to survive and be proven wrong by think tanks than do nothing and risk livelyhoods and even lives, this new epoch of enlightenment is here, all we need to do is act. Come paris 2016 after Vanuatu, the time to change has begun. Don't forget, there is not Planet B. I am ready to change, are you?

Very informative. Thanks For sharing

I agree that it is time to react to climate change and the problems riding with it. However, knowing that the economies are based on growth and governments and companies are driving by this kind of economy, it may be hard for them to give up the ever growing wealth they experience. Thus, most governments and companies based on the current economic system would not be willing to give up their system. Simply because the greed in humans nature. Therefor it might be a very hard task to convert governments and companies to act now. Meaning that changes that are being made are small, slow and inefficient in favor of climate change.  Even if we stop CO2 emission one needs to 'filter' CO2 out the air to prevent global warming from melting earth's methane reserves which will speed up the global warming process and even might cause a mass extinction. In my opinion, the only way to sustain life as we know on earth is to both start filtering massive amounts of CO2 out of the air and change the economic system for which greed is not a driving power any longer. Along with this change, large investments must be made for sustainable energy, transport and consuming.  I am aware of many problems that are running today like both marine and terrestrial ecosystem shifts, chemical shifts in waters and a still growing population.  Knowing all this raises a question. Are we as a global community willing and going to change drastically enough to save life on earth as we know it. Or are we too greedy to save and are we heading to a possible mass extinction. I know I am ready to change, are you?  

It's a good video. It expresses about the problems of the world. The all countries in the world must work together to solve this problems to keep our environment clean for all

can I use the video in my fb page to aware people?

Thank you for nice descriptions

It was time fore a decision in 1919 when Milankovitch warned us about global cooling!

Romanus Bekweniwe is a state registered tour guide and coordinator of the community based extension initiative group and a watershed technician also a WWOOF host CAM 02 based in bambui tubah sub division in the NW REGION of CAMEROON based between central and WEST Africa. Climate change is really a worldwide problem

Good video. Policy makers need to take action.

Is this video done through whiteboard? Thanks for answering

So -- let's think about how well things have gone since 2012. If we have a baseline OKness for climate change (it's still accepting major disruption, however, because things will continue to get exponentially worse for at least another forty years; the effects total will last more than a hundred) ... if we accept this and therefore have a 100% achievement target by the middle of 2017 -- now -- how far along are we? 0.1%? If even that? Perhaps even 0.01%. That sounds more about right, honestly speaking, doesn't it (not a question). In other words: nothing. I know some from the right will quibble on the notable success we've had so far and insist it's more like 0.03% -- all due to their personal efforts, no doubt -- but let's chart that and compare it to the exponential sets here: sets that all point to a terrible death for everyone, selves included. So what is the likelihood that America shuts down it operations of endless war and takes all its citizens off the road immediately? Or even ten years from now? How will they take the total collapse of their currency? That'll be a bit of an economic shock worldwide (since so many of the debts are in that terrible currency; no wonder donald trump hates China). Everyone, every country on Earth, Britain -- the people, not the establishment-types -- included, despises America. Their reasons for doing so are not irrational. Now America is determined to 'soft'-kill its enemies (everyone not America), drowning and starving them, Britain included, whether by design or sheer pigheaded ignorance, I wonder what the 'diplomatic' responses are going to be. Until the UK shakes off the neoliberal poison, we don't stand a chance. The country cannot feed or power itself -- and it faces millions of people being displaced in the mid 2030s; the government's plans prove it.

0:50 that sold me also this was in 2012. wow.

Some think adaptation is nice,but what we really need is mitigation.