New study exposes lack of climate adaptation finance to African countries and need for targeted efforts
As world leaders at the UN General Assembly are expected to stress their commitment to delivering climate finance on Tuesday, a new SEI study reveals that adaptation-related finance to African countries between 2014 and 2018 was well below the amounts needed to tackle the impacts of climate change.Quantitative analysis shows that finance targeting mitigation was almost double that for adaptation. That is in sharp contrast to the UN Secretary General’s call for climate finance to be at least equally