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COP29: Climate resilience gets growing support – but insufficient funds

This year's record-low donations to the Adaptation Fund could be linked to negotiations around the new collective quantified goal.
Melodie Michel
COP29: Climate resilience gets growing support – but insufficient funds
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Climate resilience initiatives such as Race to Resilience and Resilience4Ports are receiving growing support – but adaptation funding pledges have dwindled over the last few COPs.

Climate catastrophes are increasingly frequent and deadly, and evidence of the cost of climate catastrophes is mounting: last month’s DANA floods in Spain are anticipated to drive insured losses of over US$4 billion.

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