On Wednesday 25 September in New York, the European Commissioner for Climate Change, Wopke Hoekstra, called for all adaptation solutions to be taken into account in order to protect coasts and deal with flooding.
“We need to work from forecasting and early warning systems, through flood protection infrastructure, to the ability to withdraw from high-risk areas where possible”, he told the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Sea Level Rise.
More generally, Mr Hoekstra referred to...