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Oxfam reaction to launch of Adaptation Coalition Format 25 Jan 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson used a virtual speech at the Climate Adaptation Summit today to announce a new Adaptation Action Coalition. Responding to the announcement, Oxfam's Senior Policy Advisor on Climate Change, Tracy Carty said: "We welcome the renewed commitment to adaptation from the Prime Minister and others. The first task of this international coalition must be to scale up climate finance, without which low income countries, already suffering due to climate change, will be unable to adapt to more extreme weather. ...

Boris Johnson has called for 2021 to be the year the world fights back against the impacts of climate change that are already being felt across the globe. The Prime Minister’s comments came at a virtual event hosted by the Netherlands on adapting to climate change, as the UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for a “breakthrough on adaptation and resilience” to the crisis. Mr Guterres said there needed to be a significant increase in finance for developing countries to adapt to the changing climate and for all budget spending and investment to take climate change risks into accou...

A coalition of more than 50 countries has committed to protect almost a third of the planet by 2030 to halt the destruction of the natural world and slow extinctions of wildlife. The High Ambition Coalition (HAC) for Nature and People, which includes the UK and countries from six continents, made the pledge to protect at least 30% of the planet’s land and oceans before the One Planet summit in Paris on Monday, hosted by the French president,...