The 1,000 experts who responded to the WEF’s annual Global Risks Perception Survey, on which the report is based, ranked climate-change adaptation as their top environmental concern in the coming decade. This reflects a wider shift in thinking about the climate, with growing acceptance that we are now locked in to some degree of global temperature change and need to adapt locally – for example, by strengthening our critical infrastructure systems in order to boost their resilience to extreme weather events.
1 000名专家参与了世界经济论坛风险报告的基础——全球风险前景调查，他们认为适应气候变化是未来十年的首要环境问题。这反映出关于气候问题的思维发生了较大变化，越来越多的人承认我们已经陷入一定程度的全球温度变迁过程，必须根据当地情况适应这一变化——比如通过改善关键性基础设施系统以增强抵抗极端天气事件的能力。