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A four-step plan to help governments integrate adaptation to climate change into development planning and policy.

Better integration of science and policy in Africa is crucial for effective adaptation to climate change, concluded an international workshop.

National Adaptation Programmes of Action put climate change adaptation on the development agenda, write Balgis Osman-Elasha and Thomas E. Downing.

Saleemul Huq and Richard J.T. Klein explain why adaptation to climate change is a necessary and urgent approach to complement mitigation efforts, and how the issue is being addressed at both a national and global level.