The strategy is designed to be implemented at global and regional level, and for adaptation at national level.

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For this reason, it is essential to understand local impacts and to build adaptation planning and action around community-level concerns, priorities and aspirations.

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Since more than 180 million people around the world could be displaced by higher sea levels, "Credible projections of sea-level rise in the 21st century are essential for devising adaptation or mitigation measures, " wrote NASA's Josh Willis and John Church, of the Tasmania-based Center for Australian Weather Research.

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