A key figure in the push to tackle the climate crisis at the UN has warned that efforts among the world’s poorest nations adapt to climate change are faltering, driven by the continued failure of rich countries to offer money to adapt at recent climate talks, along with crippling cuts to overseas aid programmes from Donald Trump.
Speaking to The Independent, Evans Njewa - the lead climate negotiator for Malawi, and the current chair of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) bloc of 44 low-income countries at UN climate talks - revealed that efforts at the UN to drive climate adaptation and resilience have essentially stalled since countries failed to agree to a goal on adaptation financing at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, last year.
