'Running on empty': Global gap in annual funding for climate adaptation now stands at up to $399bn

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UN estimates the 'yawning gap' in private and public finance needed to prepare and adapt the world for worsening climate change impacts now stands at between $284bn and $399bn per year

The amount of funding needed to prepare and adapt communities and infrastructure around the world to the worsening impacts of climate change now stands at between $284bn and $399bn per year, a vast funding...

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