chapter v explores two important areas of international cooperation international financing for climate change adaptation and the development of improved systems of information and data sharing those uncertainties are compounded by the interaction of climate change with megatrends related to demographic dynamics urbanization globalization and technological progress in order to in some way address these conditions of uncertainty the international research community has adopted a set of narratives which consider possible pathways for development the estimation of plausible scenarios in the future are produced by different combinations of those megatrends