Acclimatise's John Firth on Climate Change Adaptation: "It's not an environmental issue."
Channel: Acclimatise
Date: 2015-08-19

** NB: The sound quality is poor only for the first 2 minutes of the video.**

Acclimatise CEO John Firth speaks about climate change adaptation planning, and how important it is to integrate it into policy and governance.

In his presentation, given to the Common Future under Climate Change Conference in Paris in July, John speaks about understanding climate change not as an environmental issue, but as a social and economic one.

"During the Thailand floods 10,000 factories were put out of action total output in Thailand fell by 36%, that's lots and lots of jobs. Nisan spent GBP £67 million on supply chain recovery costs..." John explains. "What this all tells us is that the language of climate change is not about 'temperature' and 'precipitation'. The language of climate change is about the issues that make politicians sit up, take notice, and take action."