ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the theory, policy and practice of climate change adaptation (CCA), demonstrating how it sits within disaster risk reduction. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) processes are the pillars of CCA that represent a science and policy driven approach of dividing climate change from the development discourse into something separate. The IPCC provided a complicated set of vocabulary regarding adaptation to climate change. Articles 2 and 3 of the UNFCCC clearly state that the parties to the Convention are obliged to stabilise greenhouse gas emissions in order to 'prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system'. The UNFCCC forms the pillars of international climate change governance, focusing on mitigation but nonetheless referring to adaptation four times throughout the text. The government of the Seychelles has demonstrated a strong commitment to fighting climate change, and in 1992 was the second country in the world to sign the UNFCCC.
