Speaker warns of climate overshoot and urges tripling adaptation finance by 2035
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Addressing the Group of 77 in China, an unidentified speaker warned the world is headed toward a 1.5°C overshoot, urged immediate emission cuts, methane reductions and a tripling of adaptation finance plus increased funds for loss and damage.
An unidentified speaker told the Group of 77 in China that immediate and large-scale action is required to meet climate justice goals and protect vulnerable countries.
"The world is headed towards a temporary overshoot above 1.5 degrees Celsius," the speaker warned, and added that the task is to make any overshoot "as small, as short, and as safe as possible" through deep emission cuts this decade.
The address urged countries to treat national climate plans as a floor rather than a ceiling for ambition, to tackle methane emissions as a fast, cost-effective way to cut near-term warming, and to strengthen adaptation measures such as early warning systems and resilient infrastructure.
On finance, the speaker called on developed countries to lead delivery of the COPs call to triple adaptation finance by 2035 and to increase contributions to loss-and-damage funds.
The speech concluded by linking climate demands with calls for fairness and scaled finance: the speaker framed adaptation and loss-and-damage funding as moral and practical imperatives for countries that contributed least to the crisis.
