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Enumerating adaptation

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As poor nations put together their climate change budgets and strategies, Anna Petherick looks at the challenges of calculating national costs of adapting to global warming.

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Figure 1: Gross domestic product growth and rainfall variability in Ethiopia for 1982–2000.

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  1. Anna Petherick is a freelance journalist based in Devon, UK,

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