COPENHAGEN — Even as China has signaled that it won't be first in line for
adaptation assistance from the West, it has remained steadfast in insisting that the
language of the one global treaty
on climate involving all countries, dating from 1992, still applies.
As part of our contribution, CSW commented that the document might carry greater relevance for decision - makers who want to advance a needed
adaptation agenda to an unconvinced or
climate - skeptic audience (a very real possibility) by including more explicit
language on the ways in which
climate change issues can be framed to appeal to diverse groups — for example, emphasizing the potential damages to people and property to one community, the negative impacts to industry in another.