COP26 summit urged to prioritise adaptation as 'climate emergency' surge

(Reuters, 6 Sep 2021) Both funding and political will to adapt to worsening climate-driven threats remain in short supply, top officials say.

On the heels of last month's warning from the U.N. climate science panel that extreme weather and rising seas are hitting faster than expected, leaders called on Monday for more money and political will to help people adapt to the new reality.

At a dialogue in Rotterdam convened by the Global Center on Adaptation, more than 50 ministers and heads of climate organisations and development banks called for November's COP26 climate talks to treat adaptation as "urgent".

In a communique, they said adaptation - which ranges from building higher flood defences to growing more drought-tolerant crops and relocating coastal communities - had not benefited from the same attention, resources or level of action as efforts to cut planet-heating emissions.

That has left communities worldwide "exposed to a climate emergency unfolding faster than predicted", they said.

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