Lags in action: the European efforts to Adaptation to Global Warming

An important European document has just been published about climate change impacts and vulnerability on the continent, as can best be seen in this November 2012. This document recognizes that climate change is already underway, and has negative impacts on which the document is centered, abandoning the positives that are offered for European agriculture, both by increasing the temperature of the cold lands and the effect of higher fertilizer level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.  Climate Change Adaptation to the negative impacts is treated in two instances. One is the feeling that dominates the document sounding like a cry for the need to adapt in order to reduce the losses that are happening and, more important, what will occur if the required adjustment won't be performed. Another is the promise for some years ahead of research funding for adaptation. Still, there are no strategies presented in terms of adaptation to global warming to be applied right now. For adaptation strategies, in terms of scientific and technologic research, readers are referred to the near future:

 “It is expected that around 35 % of the Horizon 2020 budget will be climate-related expenditure, which is for both mitigation and adaptation together” (Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012- An indicator-based report, p.245).

   

    European and american attitudes are, some times, for many brazilians, uncritically taken as paradigms.    But, the need for agriculture research to compensate the effects of the Global Warming on the equatorial region is far more stricking and urgent than for the temperate North Atlantic countries. The equatorial regions can not wait to 2020.