'Climate change is landing blow after blow upon humanity, as we saw throughout 2022,' said one U.N. expert. 'We must get serious about adapting to climate change, and we must do it now.'
in Pakistan in recent months, build shelters to protect people from tropical cyclones, and develop agricultural systems that can cope with heatwaves and droughts.
That sum is just 4% higher than what was spent by wealthy countries in 2019, while the cost of climate adaptation is expected to rise as high as $340 billion per year by 2030. Wealthy governments pledged at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference that they would increase adaptation funding to $40 billion by 2025.
"We need a global surge in adaptation investment to save millions of lives from climate carnage," U.N. Secretary-General António GuterresThursday."Adaptation support today stands at less than one-tenth of [$340 billion]. The most vulnerable people and communities are paying the price and this is unacceptable."
UNEP executive director Inger Andersen warned that the world will"spend the coming decades in emergency response mode, dealing with disaster after disaster," unless the Global North invests heavily in helping countries adapt to the effects of the climate crisis that can no longer be avoided—while also drastically reducing the emissions that are fueling planetary heating and extreme weather, and providing"loss and damage" funding for countries that have already suffered...
Due to continued fossil fuel extraction, driven largely by the world's wealthiest countries,"in many places, it is too late for adaptation," Guterres"COP27 must provide a clear and time-bound roadmap on closing the finance gap for addressing loss and damage. This will be a central litmus test for success at COP27."
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