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HYDERABAD, INDIA, Nov 14 (IPS) - If you ask what climate justice is, then the litmus test for climate justice is at the local level. So, climate justice needs to be judged by how many people are protected from climate-vulnerable conditions that they have no hand in creating. – Gernot Laganda, Director of Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 
 It is crucial to narrow the gaps and ensure that climate finance goes to where pe...

The yawning gap between the cost of adapting to climate change and the finance available is becoming a chasm, experts warn ahead of COP28

If at-risk low-income countries do not receive increased financial support, climate change impacts will be even more catastrophic.

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As climate change makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent, the world must spend hundreds of billions more a year - 10 to 18 times more than it currently spends - helping vulnerable people adapt to mounting devastation, United Nations experts said Thursday. The warning comes as millions of people suffer amid severe droughts, catastrophic wildfires and ruinous floods fueled by rising global temperatures. It also comes less than a month before the next U.N. Climate Change Conference,

International funding for climate resilience in developing countries slumped in 2021 despite increasingly ferocious impacts, the United Nations said Thursday, as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned action was "stalling" even as the need to protect people increases. "Storms, fires, floods, drought and extreme temperatures are becoming more frequent and more ferocious, and they're on course to get far worse," Guterres said in a statement, adding that the ne...

International funding for climate resilience in developing countries slumped in 2021 despite increasingly ferocious impacts, the United Nations said Thursday, as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned action was "stalling" even as the need to protect people increases.

Here’s a primer on UNEP’s Adaptation Gap, Production Gap and Emissions Gap reports.

Adaptation is still chronically underfunded and action lags, despite mounting impacts of climate change. Four tasks are critical for making people and systems more resilient to the climate crisis.

As wealthy nations fail to fund climate change adaptation, Africa faces ‘human calamity’, expert warns.