Adaptation: A weak text with significant • Table.Briefings

An irrigated vegetable garden in Niger: projects like this to adapt to climate change will become increasingly necessary in the future.

Work on the Global Adaptation Goal (GGA) at the climate summit was stalled for so long that many essential elements were left out of the final declaration. Above all, the African states cannot be satisfied with this. However, they ultimately accepted the text.

Adaptation to climate change only received its due political attention in Dubai towards the end of COP28. After the long blockade of the negotiating track, partly by the Arab countries, parties had very little time to work on the content of the text.

Adaptation: A weak text with significant gaps

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