Posted on 09 November 2021
Focus at COP26 turned to adaptation, loss and damage, on Monday. Leaders from developing countries called for developed countries to uphold their promise of financial support for loss and damage impacts and adaptation plans.
However, wealthy nations have delayed their pledge to provide 100 billion US dollars per year by 2020, by three years to 2023.
Frank Bainimarama, Prime Minister of Fiji said:
“The developed nations are failing us, they’re the ones with the resources and technology to make a difference yet they have left potential for clean energy and adaptation off the table by missing the $100 billion pledge two years running… We, the most vulnerable are told to suck it up and wait until 2023”
Meanwhile, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner, climate envoy from the Marshall Islands said that science is starting to reveal that adaptation measures are going to cost way more than $100 billion a year.
Last week in her COP26 address, the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley Q.C, said:
“Climate finance to frontline small island developing states declined by 25% in 2019 – failure to provide the critical finance and that of loss and damage, is measured, my friends, in lives and livelihoods – this is immoral, and it is unjust.”
See COP26 announcements relating Adaptation