Some of the world’s poorest countries won a partial victory at the COP30 climate talks — but not enough, they say, to protect them from the perils of a hotter planet.
The climate talks at the mouth of the Amazon River ended with a deal to triple the amount of funding to help developing nations prepare for heat waves, floods and rising seas — though over a longer period than they had called for.
While the agreement increased support for adaptation funding, it did not identify fossil fuels as the cause of rising temperatures. Nor did it include a proposal by dozens of nations to hasten the transition away from oil, natural gas and coal.
In the end, the deal called for tripling adaptation financing to $120 billion by 2035, while proposing metrics to track infrastructure and other projects. The United Nations estimates that $310 billion will be needed globally for adaptation within a decade.
