Africa presses for robust adaptation funds at COP30

BRAZIL: AFRICA has intensified its call for adequate financing for climate adaptation, warning that without real support for implementation, global decisions will remain elegant words on paper with little impact on vulnerable communities.

Speaking on behalf of the 54-member African Group of Negotiators (AGN) at the COP30 closing plenary, where the UN climate conference adopted its final decision Belém in Brazil yesterday, AGN Chair under Tanzania, Dr Richard Muyungi, said Africa requires reliable financing to turn climate adaptation commitments into real environmental action.

Dr Muyungi who is also the Tanzania Special Envoy and Presidential Advisor on Environment and Climate Change insisted that Africa did not come to Belém merely as a negotiating bloc, but as a continent carrying the hopes of more than a billion people whose lives are intertwined with the rhythms of a changing climate.

“For us, adaptation is not a choice, it is a matter of survival,” Dr Muyungi said.