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