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Tuesday 26 January 2021
Kerry: U.S. will make up for 4 years of lost action on climate

nations and 100 million eu-
ros ($121 million) into a pro-
gram for sustainable farm-
ing in Africa’s Sahel region.
Kaag said by using new
and existing adaptation
techniques, “we can build
a climate-proof future to-
gether and promote sus-
tainable economic growth
in all parts of Africa.”
President Ali Bongo On-
dimba of Gabon warned
that if climate change is
not reined in it could cre-
ate “hundreds of millions of
climate refugees in Africa
by the middle of the centu-
ry.” He said Africa “has no
choice but to adapt and
chart a climate resilient fu-
ture.”
British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson used Monday’s
summit to announce a new
Adaptation Action Coali-
tion that brings together
Wind turbines are seen on a dike near Urk, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. more than 120 countries
Associated Press along with the European
By MIKE CORDER drawal by Donald Trump, of climate change. $70 billion dollars annually Union and nearly 90 other
Associated Press who ridiculed the science The meeting comes after a and that they are likely to organizations to double
THE HAGUE, Netherlands of human-caused climate year in which the Earth hit rise to $280-500 billion in down on climate adapta-
(AP) — The world must take change. or neared record hot tem- 2050. tion efforts.
decisive action to build re- Kerry said the Biden ad- perature levels. “We’ve reached the point The Dutch, for example,
silience to the devastating ministration is working to “We saw the heat waves. where it is an absolute fact have centuries of experi-
effects of climate change, announce its own more We saw the fires. We saw that it’s cheaper to invest ence in adapting to the
U.S. climate envoy John ambitious target for cutting the (melting) Arctic,” top in preventing damage, or threat of water from major
Kerry told a global virtual emissions soon. NASA climate scientist minimizing it at least, than rivers that run through the
summit Monday, pledging Outlining the new adminis- Gavin Schmidt said earlier cleaning up,” Kerry said. low-lying nation to its long
that President Joe Biden’s tration’s plans to promote this month about the ef- Dutch Overseas Trade and North Sea coast.
new administration would climate adaptation, Kerry fects of the warming. Development Cooperation It shares and exports the
play its role. said it will “leverage U.S. “Adaptation is not an op- Minister Sigrid Kaag got the know-how around the
In a video message to the innovation and climate tion, it is an urgent task for ball rolling by announc- world to places like flood-
Climate Adaptation Sum- data” to better understand this generation and those ing that the summit’s host prone Mozambique,
mit hosted by the Dutch and manage climate-relat- to come,” Chile President nation will pump 20 million where Dutch experts have
government, Kerry said, ed risks; increase the flow of Sebastián Piñera said in a euros ($24 million) into an helped strengthen drain-
“We’re proud to be back finance to adaptation and video message. adaptation fund for the age systems and coastal
(in the Paris climate ac- resilience initiatives, work The Netherlands-based world’s least-developed defenses.q
cord). We come back, I with institutions to improve Global Center on Adap-
want you to know, with resilience planning and tation last week called on By Dave Green
humility, for the absence promote greater collabo- governments and financ- 9 7 5 4
of the last four years, and ration. ers around the globe to
we’ll do everything in our Kerry was among world include funding for adap-
power to make up for it.” leaders who converged — tation projects in their CO- 9 3
Biden, in his first hours in of- virtually — on the Nether- VID-19 recovery spending.
fice last week, signed an lands for the summit seek- World Bank President Da- 8 4 6 9
executive order returning ing to galvanize more ac- vid Malpass said the bank’s
the United States to the tion and funding to adapt financing for adaptation 1 7
historic 2015 Paris climate the planet and vulnerable measures rose from 40% of
accord, reversing its with- communities to the effects to more than over 50% in 3 2 8 6
its climate finance in 2016
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