Overview
- Negotiators have not reached consensus on the adaptation decision, with finance terms and reporting duties keeping key text in brackets.
- Countries remain divided on whether to adopt about 100 adaptation indicators now or phase them in, with voluntary use and limited capacity highlighted by many delegations.
- Donors pledged roughly $135 million to the Adaptation Fund, while the EU sidestepped endorsing a tripling goal and the United States sent no high-level officials.
- Vulnerable states seek at least $120 billion a year by 2030 as UNEP estimates needs of $310–$365 billion annually by 2035, far above today’s tens of billions.
- Campaigners urge predictable, grant-based finance since about two thirds of current flows are loans, and they caution that adaptation cannot replace emissions cuts.