Implementing integrated multi-level coastal zone governance, pre- emptive planning, enabling behavioural change and alignment of financial resources with a wide set of values will provide C&S with greater flexibility to open up the solution space to adapt to climate change . Insufficient financial resources are a key constraint for coastal adaptation, particularly in the Global South . Engaging the private sector in coastal adaptation action with a range of financial tools is crucial to address the coastal adaptation funding gap . Considering the full range of economic and non-economic values will improve adaptation effectiveness and equity across C&S archetypes . Aligning adaptation in C&S with socioeconomic development, infrastructure maintenance and COVID-19 recovery investments will provide additional co-benefits. Urgency is also driven by the need to avoid lock-in to new and additional risks, for example to avoid C&S sprawl into fragile ecosystems and the most exposed coastal localities .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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