Dar es Salaam. Africa is receiving only a quarter of the adaptation funding it needs, a new report has revealed.
Released on November 14, 2025, during the ongoing COP30 climate summit in Belém, the report named, “Reforming Climate Finance: Adaptation Finance in Africa”, shows that African countries require $51 billion (Sh32.3 trillion) annually to protect their people and economies from rising climate impacts, yet received only $12.9 billion (Sh125 trillion) in 2023.
This shortfall comes as climate-fuelled disasters intensify across the continent, washing away homes, destroying harvests, and overwhelming fragile health systems, widening the adaptation finance gap at a dangerous pace and deepening loss and damage already underway.
In practical terms, three out of every four dollars needed to safeg
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