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Climate has changed significantly. Adaptation to the new climate, and the climate that will emerge over the next few decades, is utmost urgent. The CoP in this VCC is aiming to identify the most urgent social and economic transformations required to share the increasing climate-related risks in a just and equitable way, change processes so that communities are prepared for the increasing disasters caused by a changed spectrum of extreme weather events, and prepare the built environment for the current and future climate. We aim to identify the transformations required in climate adaptation of communities, their built environment, their social processes, and their economy, and we work to develop pathways for these transformations.

If you are concerned about the preparedness of your community for the next unprecedented extreme weather event then join us here and work with us to find ways to increase the preparedness.

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[Mar. 10, 2026] Extreme Heat Requires Extreme Adaptation: The article by Jonathan Watts titled “‘A sobering preview’: extreme heat now affects one in three people globally, study finds” underlines that already now the rising temperatures are making it hard even for young, healthy people to safely do normal physical tasks in many regions rapidly growing in size. Watts comments are based on the study by Parson et al. published in the journal Environmental Research: Health.

[Mar. 04, 2026] Sea Levels are Already Higher Than Previously Estimated: In an article in The Guardian titled “Global sea levels have been underestimated due to poor modelling, research suggests&rdquo, Tara Russell discusses a new study “ Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments” by Katharina Seeger Philip S. J. Minderhoud published in Nature. The authors reach the conclusion that average sea levels are 30 cm higher than thought globally, and up to 150 cm in south-east Asia and the Indo-Pacific. This establishes an urgent need to revise many risk assessments and efforts to develop coastal resilience.

[Mar. 04, 2026] Carbon dioxide overload: Potentially Toxic Atmosphere Within 50 Years: A study by Alexander N. Larcombe and Phil N. Bierwirth titled “Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years” published in The Lancet indicates that the anthropogenic activities increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere could lead to a toxic atmosphere already in 50 years from now. “There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms.”

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[Feb. 24, 2026] New Scenario for 2028 Points to an AI-related Highly Undesirable Future for Economy: Aisha Down and Dan Milmo discuss in their article “‘A feedback loop with no brake’: how an AI doomsday report shook US markets” the scenario study “THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future” by Citrini and Alap Shah posted on February 22, 2026 on Substack. This study points out that the financial system of today was optimized over decades for a world of scarce human minds. AI changed this: “This is the first time in history the most productive asset in the economy has produced fewer, not more, jobs. Nobody’s framework fits, because none were designed for a world where the scarce input became abundant. So we have to make new frameworks. Whether we build them in time is the only question that matters.” The authors point out that the economy could find a new equilibrium, and “getting to this new equilibrium is one of the few tasks left that only humans can do. We need to do it correctly.”