First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mizan R. Khan has been a climate negotiator for Bangladesh for more than a decade. He is a Professor at North South University, Dhaka, IPCC lead author and was a Visiting Scholar for a year at Brown in 2012-2013. He specializes in climate change politics.

Part 1 Adaptation, reality and the proposed way out; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Climate change regime, adaptation and politics; Chapter 3 Climate finance; Chapter 4 Conceptualizing adaptation; Part 2 Levers to catalyse global cooperation in adaptation; Chapter 5 Double exposure to globalization and climate change; Chapter 6 The lens of human and global security; Chapter 7 Climate change, justice and human rights; Part 3 Instruments for effecting the binding regime on adaptation; Chapter 8 Polluter pays principle to effect a binding adaptation regime; Chapter 9 Liability and compensation under loss and damage; Chapter 10 Conclusion;