"recognition of climate change"
I think this phrase is disingenuous.  No one denies climate change, it changes all the time. The phrase looks like an equivocation designed to obfuscate.
From what I have read, the argument is over anthropogenic climate change, particularly global warming.
One problem is that the climate models used to predict have been repeatedly wrong, and are inherently limited.
There may be qualitative reasons to expect climate changes, but there are puzzling facts such as there has been no global warming in the past 17 years.
Part of the problem is much of what is being done is driven by left wing politics rather than objective science.   
That being said, it is always good to prepare, especially since various predictions may come true and have little to do with carbon dioxide levels.
In fact Co2 levels may be a sign that something is going on, rather than a (partial) cause of it.