\u00a0Inge Vianen, CARE International\u2019s Global Leader on Climate and Resilience\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cAdaptation finance must work for people and nature. This means moving away from short termist solutions that put a price on nature, particularly forests, to inclusive strategies that strengthen community resilience and recognise their resource rights.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Marie-Ange Kalenga, Policy Advisor, Fern\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201c2020 was Europe\u2019s warmest year on record at 1.6\u00b0C above the pre-industrial times, and extreme heat waves, forest fires, and windstorms were wreaking havoc across Europe. It is of crucial importance that the EU not only steps up its mitigation efforts to achieve the Paris Agreement goals but also increases its adaptation efforts. The EU’s forthcoming adaptation strategy needs to set out how the Member States will strengthen their adaptation efforts at home, and support global cooperation on the Paris Agreement’s adaptation goals. \u2014\u00a0Wendel Trio, Director of Climate Action Network (CAN) E<\/strong>urope<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cAs areas of Mozambique still reeling from the devastation of Cyclone Idai are pounded by another powerful storm and severe flooding, it serves as a stark reminder of the urgent need to support developing countries already battling the climate crisis. \nYet, there is a huge and widening gap between the support needed by vulnerable nations to adapt and protect against the impacts of climate change, and the finance being provided by rich countries. \nThis week\u2019s summit must serve to energise lacklustre efforts on adaptation. Experts in the global south have the solutions, they just need the resources to protect their frontline communities.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Harjeet Singh, global climate lead at ActionAid\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cPrecise, effective and transparent financial aid and tech transfer are urgently needed. It is essential that this is distributed equitably and takes into account crucial issues of environmental justice. The promotion of nature-based solutions should be a central objective, recognising its benefits for climate mitigation, adaptation and wider social, health-related and economic benefits. We must not forget that the impacts of the climate crisis will intensify and that we can’t adapt to a land underwater or meaningfully to a desert at 50 degrees. Mitigation is urgently needed and adaptation strategies must never be used as an excuse to delay the most rapid move to zero carbon possible. As Henry Neufeldt, head of impact assessment and adaptation at UNEP, has said: ‘The more we mitigate, the less we have to adapt.’\u00a0 Similarly, our overarching response to the climate crisis must take fully into account the historical contribution to global heating from wealthy developed nations in the West, that have also benefited the most from the carbon economy and conversely recompense those who have contributed the least, benefitted the least and are commonly among those communities affected first and worst by the global heating.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Steve Trent, co-founder and executive director, Environmental Justice Foundation<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cClimate change is a reality and we must learn how to adapt now. Lack of adaptation may become a driver\u00a0 for famine, conflicts and migration, while investments in adaptation can save lives and livelihoods.\u00a0For years adaptation has received limited attention, and it is therefore good to see heads of presidents, prime ministers, and ministers, talking about the need for adaptation action. I hope these engaged speeches will all turn into concrete action\u201d \u2014\u00a0Mattias S\u00f6derberg, Chief advisor, DanChurchAid<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cSoutheast Asia is home to countries highly vulnerable to impacts of climate change. Concerted action on adaptation is as important as mitigation efforts for the region, and much more needs to be done. Greater resources, especially finance, need to be provided to vulnerable communities to help them adapt and become resilient to climate change.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Nithi Nesadurai, Regional Coordinator, Climate Action Network Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cClimate crisis is here and now. People on the frontlines need money to rebuild their homes and livelihoods.\u00a0Communities are right now burdened with the droughts, floods and hurricanes of climate change they did not cause. Fancy global meetings which fail to give them funding are useless. \nThis is an emergency that the UK COP26 Presidency must address, fast by listening to the needs of the most impacted people and ensuring they receive funding and support.\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Sara Stillwell, Climate and Communications Lead, Robin Hood Tax Campaign UK<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cIf COVID-19 has taught us anything, it\u2019s that we can work together in a crisis. Climate change is no different; it is a crisis that needs our urgent reaction. The Arab countries are some of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in the world. The Arab leaders need to put climate change at the same level as COVID-19.\u00a0It should be treated as a life or death matter.\u00a0Communities in these countries have already experienced the impacts of climate change. From flooding in Yemen and Sudan in 2020 to the high temperatures witnessed in Jordan and other countries, these communities have zero adaptation measures. Most of them are already facing political and socio-economic struggles. We need our governments to hear the voices of these communities. They need to adopt adequate and urgent measures to lift their citizens from their miseries and enable them to face the impacts of climate change.\u201d \u2014\u00a0Fatima Ahouli, Regional Coordinator, Climate Action Network-Arab World<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Climate Adaptation Summit concludes today with the launch of the\u00a0Adaptation Action Coalition, a new international coalition launched by the UK COP26 Presidency to turn political commitments into adaptation action on the ground. But no new and additional financial pledges were made by rich countries to specifically support adaptation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"can_campaign_tax":[141,226],"can_region_tax":[],"can_topic_tax":[36],"can_body_tax":[],"can_event_tax":[217],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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