A child looking for water in a rural area of Benin during a drought (Photo: UNDP Benin /Flickr)
A Climate Home News article on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) negotiations at COP28 features several quotes and commentaries from Imane Saidi, a researcher at IMAL:
Imane Saidi, from the Morocco-based climate think tank Imal, told Climate Home it [the GGA] was supposed to be the adaptation equivalent of the target to limit global warming to 1.5C ...
But developed countries did not relent on providing finance, technology and training to help developing countries achieve these goals. Because of this, Saidi told Climate Home the text is like “a car without wheels”.
While Monday’s draft said governments would “commit” to closing the gap in adaptation finance – which the United Nations says is $194-366 billion a year – the final text only “seeks” to close this gap.