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USA: Climate talk shifts from curbing CO2 to adapting

Source(s): Associated Press
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"It's called adaptation and it's about as sexy but as necessary as insurance," told experts to Associated Press.

Over 36 municipal officials from across the USA will announce a nationwide effort to make their cities more resilient to natural disasters and the effects of man-made global warming.

"It's an insurance policy, which is investing in the future," Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, Calif., who is chairing the mayors' efforts, said in an interview Friday. "This is public safety. It's the long-term hazards that could impact a community."

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