He was of the view that the Age of Adaptation fundamentally changed the nature of climate policy as well as politics and prompted reconsideration of the conceptualisation of climate and security. [...] “The world needs to move from mitigation and started thinking about the Age of Adaptation.” The Age of Adaptation Dr Najam highlighted several reasons why the world needed to focus on the Age of Adaptation: Failure of Wisdom Global warming was a human-induced reality and lack of clarity as well as ignorance towards this issue was one of the reasons for the Age of Adaptation. [...] 10 A Political Failure The failure of climate negotiations due to lack of seriousness towards the issue had brought the world to the Age of Adaptation. [...] Earlier, he served as Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan and as the Director of the Boston University Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. [...] As evidence, he pointed to the swift allocation and spending of trillions of dollars by the US Congress in response to the existential threat of the COVID pandemic.
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