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The climate has already changed worldwide, yet adaptation finance has not advanced in the Climate Convention negotiations. A clear example is the new Quantified Collective Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), which lacks explicit incentives for adaptation.
At COP30, however, this issue can no longer be ignored. This year, the Glasgow Climate Pact, which doubled adaptation resources for 2019–2025, expires, along with most commitments from donor countries. As a result, adaptation funding could fall drastically from 2026 onward. Civil society organisations are sounding the alarm and will deliver a document on the issue to the COP30 presidency during the pre-COP, which will bring together climate negotiators from Paris Agreement Parties on October 13 and 14 in Brasília, Brazil’s political capital.
In addition to highlighting the potential financial gap in 2026, the document calls for adaptation funding to be tripled by 2030, ensuring at least USD 120 billion annually, as proposed by the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). The appeal for greater attention to climate adaptation will be reinforced by a projection on the night of October 13, from 7 PM to 10 PM, at the National Museum of the Republic, in Brasília.
“COP30 comes at a historic moment of convergence: science, vulnerable countries, and civil society are all saying the same thing — it is time to act on adaptation with the same ambition as mitigation,” said Natalie Unterstell, president of Instituto Talanoa — one of the organizations signing the letter and promoting the projection in Brasília. “This is an agenda of survival,” she added.
Currently, adaptation remains chronically underfunded, representing only 25%–30% of global climate finance, despite the NCQG and the Paris Agreement calling for a balance between mitigation and adaptation. Therefore, it is urgent to create short-term incentives to expand adaptation funding, ensuring the necessary support for the billions of people on the front lines of the climate crisis — especially in developing countries, which require financial predictability to transform risk into resilience.
The document includes recommendations to facilitate this progress, starting with the creation of a “successor” instrument to the Glasgow Pact that renews the commitment to provide adaptation finance to developing countries. With current donor commitments nearing their end, COP30 is also an opportunity to renew them with specific targets for adaptation.
“Although Belém has made progress with the completion of the Global Adaptation Goal indicators, the implementation of adaptation actions depends on predictable funding. Placing adaptation at the heart of negotiations could make COP30 a turning point in addressing the climate crisis,” emphasized Natalie.
Studies show that each dollar invested in adaptation generates up to ten dollars in multiple economic and social benefits. Conversely, each absent dollar translates into much greater human and financial losses, as increasingly severe and recurring floods, droughts, hurricanes, and other extreme events demonstrate.
The letter to the COP30 presidency is signed by over 30 organisations, including Instituto Talanoa, Africa Climate Justice Movement, Transforma Global, Argentina 1.5, Asociación para la Educación y el Desarrollo (ASEDE), Fundación Avina, WWF-Brasil, Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (GFLAC), Latin American Youth Climate Scholarship (LAYCS), CANLA – Climate Action Network Latin-America and DanChurchAid.
Projection in Brasília Sends Call to All Negotiators
All visitors, including negotiators passing by the National Museum of the Republic between 7 PM and 10 PM on October 13, will encounter a poetic and visual intervention — conceived by artists Gisela Motta and Mariana Lacerda — that issues a call to action. The projection, called From Today to Tomorrow with Climate Adaptation highlights the importance of adaptation for the future of human life on Earth, with short sentences including xxx.
The phrases will appear alongside animations inspired by the engravings of the Brazilian artist Evandro Carlos Jardim, known for depicting the movement of nature and cities. In the images, wind, rain, and transformation shape reflections on the limits and possibilities of life on a changing planet.
The initiative aims to raise awareness among decision-makers and civil society about the need to place climate adaptation at the core of COP30. The intervention encourages participants — negotiators, authorities, and the general public — to consider the human, political, and collective dimension of climate adaptation.
Event Details
From Today to Tomorrow with Climate Adaptation Projection
National Museum of the Republic – Brasília (DF)
October 13, 2025
7-10PM
Free and open to the public
Read the full letter
Organizations:
1. Força Tarefa Latinoamericana “Adaptação como prioridade para a COP 30”
2. Instituto Talanoa
3. Transforma Global
4. Argentina 1.5
5. Plataforma CIPÓ
6. Conselho Nacional das Populações Extrativistas (CNS)
7. Instituto Sociedade, População e Natureza (ISPN)
8. Asociación para la Educación y el Desarrollo (ASEDE)
9. Instituto Decodifica
10. Fundación Avina
11. Instituto Alana
12. Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)
13. Grupo de Financiamiento Climático para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (GFLAC)
14. Coalizão Brasil Clima, Florestas e Agricultura
15. Centro Brasil no Clima (CBC)
16. WWF-Brasil
17. Conectas Direitos Humanos
18. Instituto Água e Saneamento
19. Palmares Laboratório Ação
20. IPÊ – Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
21. Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica
22. Fundação Amazônia Sustentável (FAS)
23. Instituto Socioambiental da Bacia do Alto Paraguai SOS Pantanal
24. Fundación de Iniciativas de Cambio Climático, de Honduras
25. Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos (INESC)
26. Latin American Youth Climate Scholarship (LAYCS)
27. Clima de Política
28. Rede Vozes Negras pelo Clima
29. CANLA – Climate Action Network Latin-America
30. PerifaConnection
31. DanChurchAid
32. Frente Nacional de Prefeitas e Prefeitos (FNP)
33. Africa Climate Justice Movement
34. International Centre for Environmental Health and Development
35. Geledés – Instituto da Mulher Negra
36. Instituto Cerrado do Brasil
37. Instituto Triê
38. Climate Ventures
39. ECCO think tank
40. Oxfam Brasil
41. Observatório do Clima
October 13, 2025
Letter to Leaders At the Pre-COP in Brasília
To the Presidency of COP 30
To the Heads of Delegation
The institutions signing this letter call upon global leaders to make COP30 a landmark of political courage, international solidarity, and forward-looking vision on climate adaptation.
In Belém, it is essential to adopt a robust set of decisions that consolidate adaptation as a priority within the international climate regime. The conclusion of the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) indicators in Belém will represent a decisive step toward strengthening the global resilience architecture. Delivering on this goal will depend on predictable financing to support its implementation.
At present, there are serious concerns for two main reasons. First, there are no clear incentives for adaptation within the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). Second, in 2025 both the Glasgow Pact’s target to collectively double adaptation finance and most donor country commitments to climate finance will expire. Adaptation finance may face a true cliff starting in 2026, just as costs of inaction are mounting, and the regards of early action are diminishing.
On the other hand, the Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3 trillion presents an opportunity to scale up the finance for adaptation within the broader finance architecture. And, as demonstrated by the Glasgow doubling target, a clear collective goal creates a political reference point that drives financial flows and reorients investments.
This is, therefore, the moment to give adaptation a new political and financial boost. COP 30 can be remembered as the COP that decided to at least triple adaptation finance by 2030, establishing a clear commitment to implement urgent actions in developing countries.
Why at least triple it?
- Because developing countries need predictability to transform risk into resilience, which requires clarity and stability in public financial flows;
- Because tripling finance creates the short-term incentive needed to achieve balance between mitigation and adaptation by 2035, as envisioned in the NCQG and the Paris Agreement;
- Because it aligns with and supports achieving the goal of tripling by 2030 the outflows from the vertical climate funds, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Adaptation Fund (AF);
- Because the annual adaptation needs of developing countries are estimated at USD 215–387 billion by 2030, while international public flows amounted to only USD 28 billion in 2022 (UNEP, 2024); raising this figure to at least USD 86 billion per year by 2030 would reduce the shortfall by over 30%, avoiding the widening gap between needs and available resources;
- Because adaptation remains chronically underfunded, representing only 34% of global climate finance (Adaptation Gap Report, 2024), despite being the frontline of protection for billions of people facing the climate crisis.
How can COP30 make this happen?
We recommend that the COP 30 Presidency and delegations, with courage and vision, work toward a decision that includes three key components:
- A “successor” to the Glasgow commitment. Building on the Baku decision on the NCQG, Belém can take the next and necessary step: renewing the commitment to provide adaptation finance to developing countries. At a minimum, this means tripling adaptation finance by 2030, using 2022 levels or, when available, the Glasgow target achievement data as a baseline. This is the proposal put forward by the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group, which we fully support.
- A push for donor countries to recommit adaptation finance. Donor countries are reaching the end of their current climate finance pledges and now have the opportunity to renew and scale them up with specific targets for adaptation.
- Harnessing the political momentum of the Baku to Belém Roadmap. The Baku to Belém Roadmap provides the political framework to elevate adaptation finance as a central pillar of the NCQG, alongside mitigation. COP 30 should seize this moment to ensure that adaptation receives predictable, grant-based and accessible resources that address the chronic underfunding and deliver resilience for the most vulnerable.
Remember… Financing adaptation is smart.
Adaptation is local, but its impacts are global. Every dollar invested in adaptation generates up to ten dollars in multiple economic and social benefits, while every dollar not invested translates into far greater human and financial losses. Financing adaptation saves lives, reduces future costs, and creates opportunities for communities and economies – building resilient development. In agriculture, it could avoid USD 20-25 billion in crop and livestock losses by 2050.In the water and sanitation sector, it could avoid USD 270-380 in losses from climate-induced storms, floods, and droughts. Building resilience to superstorms in power, transport and telecoms systems could avoid USD 110-170 billion in infrastructure damage by 2050. And investing in resilience could generate more than 280 million jobs over the next 10 years (Systemiq et al, 2025).
Remember… Financing adaptation is protecting lives. Adaptation is for life.
Across the world, the reality of climate inaction is catastrophic: floods, droughts, food insecurity, and health impacts are affecting the most vulnerable populations. Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant and quilombola territories, local communities, and urban peripheries are already confronting risks through locally led solutions. Yet, no matter how innovative, these initiatives need scale, they need predictable finance and support to transform local resilience into collective security.
Triple adaptation finance now – and be remembered as leaders who had the courage to act.
With determination and hope,
