Welcome to the new look 60th issue of
Participatory Learning and Action! The
focus of this special issue is communitybased
adaptation to climate change. Its
publication is timed to coincide with the
forthcoming United Nations Climate
Change Conference (COP 15) to be held in
December, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and
events surrounding it. The conference will
bring together world leaders to try to make
decisions on four key questions:
• How much are the industrialised countries
willing to reduce their emissions of
greenhouse gases?
• How much are major developing countries
such as China and India willing to do
to limit the growth of their emissions?
• How is the help needed by developing
countries to engage in reducing their emissions
and adapting to the impacts of
climate change going to be financed?
• How is that money going to be managed?1
Reducing emissions of greenhouse
gases is crucial to limiting the extent of
future climate change. However, there is
also recognition that human-induced