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Oxfam reaction to launch of Adaptation Coalition
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25 Jan 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson used a virtual speech at the Climate Adaptation Summit today to announce a new Adaptation Action Coalition. Responding to the announcement, Oxfam s Senior Policy Advisor on Climate Change, Tracy Carty said: We welcome the renewed commitment to adaptation from the Prime Minister and others. The first task of this international coalition must be to scale up climate finance, without which low income countries, already suffering due to climate change, will be unable to adapt to more extreme weather. Only a fifth of all reported public climate finance to developing countries is currently spent on adaptation, so increasing that to half must be an urgent priority, as Secretary General António Guterres has called for.
Kerry was among world leaders who converged virtually on the Netherlands for the summit seeking to galvanize more action and funding to adapt the planet and vulnerable communities to the effects of climate change.
“We saw the heat waves. We saw the fires. We saw the (melting) Arctic,” top NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt said earlier this month about the effects of the warming. Adaptation is not an option, it is an urgent task for this generation and those to come,” Chile President Sebastián Piñera said in a video message.
The Netherlands-based Global Center on Adaptation last week called on governments and financers around the globe to include funding for adaptation projects in their COVID-19 recovery spending.