Climate change adaptation: the impact of law on adaptation in the private sector

This briefing paper explores how the government can encourage, facilitate, and even demand actions from the different parts of the private sector to adapt to the changing climate. It focuses on adaptation that is influenced, motivated, or in certain cases prevented or constrained by the government through laws, regulations, incentives and policies with direct or indirect affects, then develops a list of principles and outcomes for the government’s role in facilitating private sector adaptation.