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The Adaptation Imperative / Achim Steiner, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNEP, Project Syndicate, 8/01/2015http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-change-conference-lima-by-achim-steiner-2015-01In the run-up to the recent United Nations meeting on climate change in Lima, Peru, much of the world’s attention focused on how strongly countries would commit to a framework for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions. Governments’ commitment to such a framework, after all, is vital to ensure that the agreement to be signed in Paris in December will keep global temperatures from rising more than 2º Celsius above pre-industrial levels...