By Fredrick Otieno It’s a warm and glorious midmorning when our delegation arrives at the luxuriant farm in Newlands on the outskirts of Johannesburg. When she comes to meet us, Mama Judy’s fingers are already soaked in black earth. While it’s only 10 AM, activities at the farm are in high gear. We are members of the Pan African Coalition for Adaptation and Resilience (PACAR), visiting the farm to see adaptation in action. Without much ado, Mama Judy takes us on a tour of th

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

At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, adaptation is finally centrestage. This conference marks a political crossroads for climate-vulnerable nations, especially across Africa. Two milestones are on the line: the finalisation of indicators to track progress towards the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), and the long-overdue delivery of the Glasgow commitment to double adaptation finance by 2025. For the Global South, this is a survival mechanism, a kind of Southern Cross guiding those most