Joke Waller-Hunter, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change writes in the OECD observer, “I must admit to being surprised at some experts and leaders – including at the OECD – who argue that we should focus more on adaptation, because the Kyoto Protocol would not solve the climate change problem. Yet, no one has ever claimed that the Kyoto Protocol would achieve that.” But isn’t this exactly why adaptation is needed to complement mitigation policies on climate change? Waller-Hunter even notes, “Helping countries to adapt to climate change has become a key component of overall climate change policy, but much remains to be done to implement it, in such areas as infrastructure development and land management.” As economist William Nordhaus once said, “mitigate we might, adapt we must.”