Adaptation Archives

Climate disasters challenge right to safe and adequate housing

Climate-proofing homes is now an essential response to regular extreme weather events and can help prevent displacement

António Guterres calls extreme heat “the new abnormal” as he urges countries to step up protection of vulnerable populations

Pilgrims without the right type of visa were denied medical treatment, survivors say, during a 52C heatwave which killed hundreds

Next round of NDCs in focus as negotiations wrap up with a final push to resolve fights on issues including adaptation and just transition

Many vulnerable people in South Asia are already struggling to protect themselves from unbearably high temperatures – which are set to worsen

While most attention is on fossil fuels, the US is blocking progress on an adaptation playbook, a matter of life or death for many Africans

Data shows countries provided $89.6bn in 2021, but funding for adaptation declined.

After the UK cut short a £52m climate adaptation scheme in Malawi, vulnerable communities saw their livelihoods destroyed by Cyclone Freddy

Developing and developed countries are wrangling over whether finance should be included in an adaptation framework to be approved at Cop28

Despite Beijing’s sponge city project, the capital was overwhelmed by recent floods with dozens dying and a new “sponge airport” shut down

As Morocco faces increasingly extreme temperatures, indigenous communities in the country’s southeast suffer the brunt of the climate crisis

In fraught nations, developing countries wanted to focus on specific targets, while developed nations only wanted to talk about structure

With climate devastation growing, we can’t keep sidelining climate adaptation at governments’ climate talks

Information about projects to help adapt to climate change is scattered, hard-to-find and incomplete, making keeping track of them impossible

Elon Musk is charging for automated tweets, making it harder for authorities to warn of extreme weather events

In India more intense droughts and floods are destroying sugarcane crops and plunging millions of farmers and their families into debt

Pakistan’s catastrophic flooding and soaring energy bills are shaping the UN agenda – for those leaders who show up

Presidents of Senegal, DRC and Ghana travelled to Rotterdam to talk about adapting to climate change. Only one European leader was there to meet them

In China, Lake Poyang is just a quarter of its normal size, while in Germany, the Rhine is running at 45% of its average levels for August

At least 550 people died as the wettest month in three decades washed away mud houses in rural Balochistan – and international aid is not forthcoming