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Exploring these responses further, it is useful to consider the relationships between public awareness or whether adaptation has reached the political agenda and the reported triggers for action on adaptation. In terms of the triggers, for those countries agreeing or strongly agreeing (20 of 30) that the level of public awareness of the need for adaptation as a response to climate change has increased:

• More of these countries (ten of 14) identified scientific research and forerunner sectors (i.e. sectors taking a lead on adaptation (four of five) than those that neither agreed nor disagreed (i.e. responded neutrally) with the statement that public awareness had increased.