Professor Marc Hufty, Development Studies, and Research Assistants Hameedullah Jamali and Morgan Scoville-Simonds presented results from the project Adapting to Adaptation (ADAPT2): Studying the influence of climate change adaptation discourses and policies on local governance processes, at the conference “Beyond 2015: Exploring the Future of Global Climate Governance” organised by the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU University Amsterdam in Amsterdam on November 20th, 2014.

Two papers were presented and were well received by the attending researchers and practitioners involved in global climate governance. Together, the papers presented some of the findings of the ADAPT2 project, in particular, empirical results demonstrating the processes and actors through which climate change adaptation is defined and framed at the international, national, and local levels in, variably, highly-technical or socially-aware ways, but rarely in explicitly-political terms. The findings suggest the need for a broader debate of the adaptation problem that considers inherently-political questions of differing values, choices, and voices in climate change adaptation governance.