By Amy Giliam Thorp The Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) has often been described as the North Star for adaptation – a light guiding global efforts and ambition. But for Africa and other Global South developing countries, it’s not the North Star that offers us direction. It’s the Southern Cross. Like the Southern Cross, the GGA and its 11 targets (7 thematic and 4 related to the adaptation policy cycle) under the UAE-Belem Work Programme and established through the UAE Framewo

BY SAADA MOHAMED Three weeks to COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the summit president, Amb André Corrêa do Lago, equated global climate adaptation to the first half of survival and a critical component of human evolution. In his eighth letter, Amb do Lago noted that adaptation can no longer be deemed secondary to mitigation nor an alternative to development. This tone was welcomed by climate-vulnerable countries, who hoped that the presidency’s progressive outlook would translate to