
Documenting the Belém Adaptation Indicators’ journey from 5,339 to 59 metrics. The long-awaited operational tool for the Global Goal on Adaptation, with the initial long list of thousands now refined into a concise group of voluntary metrics, provides the first roadmap for measuring the world’s collective resilience.
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COP30 negotiators haggled over 100 indicators to measure progress while starving frontline communities of resources, Canada committed CAD$263 million to IFAD's smallholder farmer adaptation, a landmark FAO-UNDP report on agrifood found that only 16% of measures in NAPs address climate impacts or vulnerable populations, and a call to triple adaptation finance commitments meets developed world barriers.
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The World Economic Forum quantified the climate's economic toll, business leaders made the case for revolutionising private adaptation finance, the UN warned of an increasingly erratic global water cycle, Brazil confronts a surge in mosquito-borne disease, and military spending starves climate adaptation funding.
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Brazil secured Amazonian support for a $125 billion forest fund, World Water Week put water at the heart of the climate fight, attribution science showed climate change made Mediterranean wildfires 10 times more likely, warming European waters force a great fish migration, and a 40-year study revealed South American forests can't keep up with warming.
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Zambia hosts the UN's largest adaptation gathering as African youth demand direct climate finance, politically green German cities receive most of the country's adaptation funding, ASEAN wrestles with resilience through nature, and grassroots mapping tools to crowdsource climate resilience
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