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Nevertheless, high adaptive capacity does not necessarily translate into adaptation actions that reduce vulnerability (IPCC, 2007). For example, governments may provide information material to residents on how to deal with heat stress, an activity to build adaptive capacity. This requires dedicated initiatives for residents to act upon this information they received (e.g. do not implement inexpensive adaptation responses such as airing living spaces and drinking water). Unless these initiatives are put in place, a country might still be faced with a high level of morbidity or even mortality in case of extensive heat waves and thus, high vulnerabilities to climate change.