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Examples of adaptation measures include large-scale infrastructure changes, such as building defenses to protect against sea-level rise, as well behavioral shifts, such as individuals reducing their food waste.

At its most basic, adaptation refers to a process or action that changes a living thing so that it is better able to survive in a new environment,? whereas resilience describes the capacity or ability to anticipate and cope with shocks, and to recover from their impacts? in a timely and efficient manner.

What is COP26 and what does COP stand for? COP stands for Conference of the Parties, and will be attended by countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - a treaty agreed in 1994. The 2021 meeting will be the 26th meeting, which is why it's called COP26.

Climate change adaptation refers to actions that reduce the negative impact of climate change, while taking advantage of potential new opportunities. It involves adjusting policies and actions because of observed or expected changes in climate.

COP26 finally ended in Glasgow a day later than scheduled, on the 13th November 2021, with the conference's President Alok Sharma declaring, ?we can now say with credibility that we have kept 1.5 degrees alive.

The UK hosted the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow on 31 October ? 13 November 2021. The COP26 summit brought parties together to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

COP26 has been hailed as the most important Conference of the Parties (COP) since COP21, which produced the Paris Agreement. Although the conference was unsatisfactory in delivering the action and commitments needed to reach the targets from the Paris Agreement, COP26 has raised the global ambition on climate action.