The new finance goal needs clear and enforceable adaptation targets to help vulnerable countries cope with the impact of climate change
Even as leaders highlight the urgency of protecting people from more extreme weather and rising seas, they have been reluctant to pay up at COP29 for the measures needed
Top scientists and former UN chiefs call for fossil fuel-supporting nations to be excluded as COP hosts, while Adaptation Fund struggles for cash
Humanitarian groups have pushed ahead with innovative efforts to protect people in conflict zones from worsening climate impacts – but they are struggling to go it alone
While adaptation funding jumped by about a quarter in 2022, a large share came as loans rather than grants, adding to developing-nations’ debt burdens
Private investments in adaptation are likely to be significantly underestimated as a result of the huge challenge in tracking them, experts say – though barriers remain
A new approach to adaptation is putting communities most affected by climate change at the heart of how decisions are made
Farmers need crop irrigation to help beat drought – but it’s unclear if that would qualify for new loss and damage funding
Developing nations got agreement to set targets for food and water security, but rich nations were unwilling to plug a huge funding gap
While most attention is on fossil fuels, the US is blocking progress on an adaptation playbook, a matter of life or death for many Africans
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Climate funds are the early adopters of a different way of doing finance. One which prioritises the climate, communities and the natural world.
Developing and developed countries are wrangling over whether finance should be included in an adaptation framework to be approved at Cop28
Climate disasters cascade across continents and oceans – countries must tackle them together
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In fraught nations, developing countries wanted to focus on specific targets, while developed nations only wanted to talk about structure
With climate devastation growing, we can’t keep sidelining climate adaptation at governments’ climate talks
Information about projects to help adapt to climate change is scattered, hard-to-find and incomplete, making keeping track of them impossible
Sponsored content: Projects in Seychelles and Armenia are building ecosystem resilience on the ground
New carbon credit guidelines do not recommend a mandatory levy to fund adaptation despite calls from vulnerable countries and experts