| The Nairobi Conference (COP12) stressed the need to supplement mitigation efforts with climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction policies. This change of direction is needed in order to ensure developing countries commit to the future climate regime, and because climate change over the next 30 years and its consequences will essentially be determined by past emissions of greenhouse gases. To increase understanding of the challenges of adaptation in developed and developing economies, IDDRI is conducting two projects: - It is coordinating the European research project, CIRCE, whose aim is to better understand the issues of climate vulnerability in Mediterranean countries and their linkages with development strategies.
- With IDDRI's Foundation and its founders, it is leading an innovative project aimed at studying the vulnerability of industrial activities and infrastructure to climate change, focusing particularly on the climate change scenarios developed by the French scientific community for the fourth IPCC report.
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