Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned Thursday, starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at the upcoming COP29 summit.<\/p>\n
In its Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come Hell and High Water, UNEP warned that vulnerable communities are already bearing the brunt of climate change impacts through extreme weather and disasters.<\/p>\n
\u201cClimate change is already devastating communities across the world, particularly the most poor and vulnerable. Raging storms are flattening homes, wildfires are wiping out forests, and land degradation and drought are degrading landscapes,\u201d said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople, their livelihoods and the nature upon which they depend are in real danger from the consequences of climate change. Without action, this is a preview of what our future holds and why there simply is no excuse for the world not to get serious about adaptation, now.\u201d<\/p>\n
UNEP stressed that without immediate action, the world will likely exceed 1.5\u00b0C of warming soon and could even reach a catastrophic rise of 2.6-3.1\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.<\/p>\n
Kicking off on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) will see delegations from all corners of the world joining top UN officials, civil society and other key sectors to measure progress and negotiate the best ways to address climate change.<\/p>\n
Climate crisis is here<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe climate crisis is here,\u201d declared UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, emphasizing the urgency of immediate action as the world faces an onslaught of extreme-weather events.<\/p>\n He highlighted the \u201chuman tragedy\u201d behind these disasters, which are \u201chammering health, widening inequalities, harming sustainable development and rocking the foundations of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n In a\u00a0video message<\/a>\u00a0at the report\u2019s launch, Mr. Guterres called for action in key areas, including integrating adaptation into national climate plans, implementing effective early warning systems and rapidly scaling up finances for adaptation.<\/p>\n Additionally, countries must \u201cstrike at the heart of the crisis: greenhouse gases,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe climate crisis is here. We can\u2019t postpone protection. We must adapt \u2013 now.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n The report highlighted the widening gap between the funds needed for adaptation \u2013 the adjustments needed to slow the rate of global warming \u2013 and current levels of public investment.<\/p>\n While international adaptation finance for developing countries rose to $28 billion in 2022, it is still far below what is required, with estimates\u00a0suggesting that between $187 and $359 billion annually will be required for overcoming the adaptation finance gap<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Against this backdrop, UNEP called for a \u201cnew collective quantified goal<\/strong>\u201d for climate finance at COP29 and including stronger adaptation components in their next round of climate pledges due early next year ahead of COP30 in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil.<\/p>\n Alongside, it also urged countries to make substantial commitments at COP29 and beyond, including on increased financing as well as shifting the nature of adaptation funding from short-term project-based initiatives, to strategic, anticipatory investments.<\/p>\n This would help address long-term resilience, especially for vulnerable regions most affected by climate change.<\/p>\n UNEP suggested \u201cenabling factors\u201d that could unlock both public and private sector funding, such as the creation of creation of funds and financing facilities, climate fiscal planning and climate budget tagging, and adaptation investment planning.<\/p>\n The post Adapt or perish: UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Adapt or perish: UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Come hell or high water, nations must urgently scale up climate adaptation efforts, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned Thursday, starting with a commitment to boost adaptation financing at the upcoming COP29 summit. In its Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come Hell and High Water, UNEP warned that vulnerable communities are already bearing the brunt of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}New common goal<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Shift focus<\/strong><\/h6>\n