Cop30 highlights nations' growing need for climate resilience

With typhoons tearing across Southeast Asia this week while areas of Jamaica and Brazil are still clearing debris from damaging storms, delegates at Brazil’s Cop30 summit began grappling with how best to help the vulnerable withstand worsening weather and other climate extremes.

- REUTERS

The topic of “adaptation” has grown more important as countries fail to rein in climate-warming emissions enough to prevent extreme warming linked to increasingly frequent weather disasters across the planet. A UN report last month said developing countries alone would need up to $310 billion every year by 2035 to prepare Where that money will come from is unclear.