Say, Can COP30 Turn Your Money Into Adaptation?

The people taking long fossil fueled trips to Brazil, then using the road cut out of the Amazon, are always very happy to spend your money, whether you want this or not

Can COP30 turn adaptation talks into real-world investments?

The COP30 climate summit in Belém will put adaptation to a warming world front and centre, with the aim of moving negotiations from technical debate to deciding how to measure adaptation progress and accelerating action on the ground, according to Alice Amorim, Brazil’s COP30 programme director.

At the mid-year UN talks in Bonn, countries reached a compromise on work to select a set of 100 indicators this year for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), which is part of the Paris Agreement.

But a key sticking point has been how to track funding for vulnerable communities to become more resilient to climate shifts – which affect everything from agriculture to water and infrastructure – in a way that can help ensure that developed countries are providing adequate support to developing nations.

Oh, please. Track funding? Most of it disappears into the pockets of NGOs, government officials and workers, and big shots at companies. So little ever makes it to the people it is reported to help

A meeting of technical experts in late August narrowed down the list of GGA indicators to 113, but was unable to agree on how to monitor finance for adaptation, according to a summary released this week.

With the negotiations set to continue at COP30, Amorim told this month’s Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa that she hopes countries will finally agree on the indicators in Belém, adding that the Brazil conference – being described as an “implementation COP” – must go further to shape a system that can quickly turn those decisions into real-world results.

“This is a moment where we don’t need to wait anymore for all parties to agree on what needs to happen to make adaptation finance flow to Africa, to Latin America, to the small island states and so on. It’s about acting upon it, it’s about moving from commitments to practice,” Amorim said.

It’s about taking Other People’s money and redistributing it. But, remember, this is a science.

Brazil’s Amorim told the Africa climate summit in Ethiopia last week that the need for adaptation “is clear and tangible” on the continent. What is missing, however, are the conditions to drive it in a much wider and faster way, she added.

Do you know how much money the US, the EU, Russia, India, and China have dumped into Africa, with barely any change from its Third World shithole status? That will not change. Climate cash is just a different way of enriching some people in Africa (and other nations), but, there are no strings attached, because the developed world “owes” the shitholes the money.

Meanwhile

Jimmy Kimmel is the latest casualty of climate change. https://t.co/Y5I9kOXfhv pic.twitter.com/eqjvpColSo

— Steve Faktor (@ideafaktory) September 18, 2025

LOL