Also, the rate at which climate changes is also important — species can adapt to
gradual changes to their environment, they struggle with rapid changes.
In addition
to natural calamities, the Institute will focus on «creeping» environmental hazards — including climate
change, land degradation, degradation of the social
environment, population displacement, and
changing resource availability and quality — which imperil communities in a more
gradual but equally detrimental and multifaceted way.