It’s the 10th day of the conference and the spotlight today is on agriculture, with the sustainable roadmap on food criticised as not going far enough
• China ‘would like to see agreement to substitute renewables for fossil fuels’
Nina Lakhani has reaction from Mohamed Adow, director of the climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa, to the global goal on adaptation text. He says it’s great that we have it, but that the “text is weak”.
Adow also sent us this blog post on adaptation in which he says we are on course for a humanitarian crisis if adaptation funding doesn’t match the rise in emissions – and yet rich countries are blocking it.
Although the phase out of fossil fuels has got most of the attention at COP28, the outcome that will likely make the biggest difference to most people on the planet in the short- and medium-term is if countries come to an agreement on the Global Goal on Adaptation.
This GGA is a playbook for how the world is going to adapt to a climate that is changing rapidly and will continue to change, even if we ended fossil fuel use today. Across the world millions of people, most of whom are least responsible for carbon emissions, are attempting to adapt their lives and livelihoods to a distorted climate.
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