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Recommendation 12
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Dr Lisa Schipper also told us that staff at the FCDO faced pressure to deliver...
Conclusion
Dr Lisa Schipper also told us that staff at the FCDO faced pressure to deliver results swiftly.26 She added that the FCDO officers to whom she presented her paper on maladaptation were “fully aware” of the risks of maladaptation but were “operating within a structure that does not allow them to step away from these kinds of problems”.27 17 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Glossary of key terms, accessed 26 October 2021 18 Q7 [Dr Lisa Schipper], Q19 [Cecília da Silva Bernardo] Q34 [Julius Ng’oma] 19 British Red Cross (CDC0028) 20 Q7 [Dr Lisa Schipper] 21 Q8 [Dr Lisa Schipper] 22 Q6 [Dr Lisa Schipper] 23 Q7 [Dr Lisa Schipper] 24 Reference to the “The Villagisation Programme targeting pastoralists and the Ethiopian Agricultural Development Led Industrialisation (ADLI) strategies”. See: Eriksen et al, Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?, World Development, Volume 141, p.4, May 2021 25 Eriksen et al, Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?, World Development, Volume 141, p.4, May 2021 26 Q10 [Dr Lisa Schipper] 27 Q8 [Dr Lisa Schipper] Global Britain in demand: UK climate action and international development around COP26 11 UK’s response—maladaptation