According to Zistaavaa Environmental News Agency, developing nations will face an annual climate adaptation cost exceeding $300 billion by 2035, warns the UN Environment Programme. Yet wealthy nations are far behind — offering barely one-twelfth of what’s needed.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls it “a failure of global solidarity measured in flooded homes, failed harvests, and lost lives.”

With COP30 in Brazil just days away, the pressure is on. Will the world finally bridge the adaptation gap — or let the Global South face the storm alone?