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One of the key tasks for this year’s Bonn talks is to agree on how to put into practice the indicators for the Global Goal on Adaptation, which were hurriedly redrafted by governments at the end of COP30 after years of painstaking work by experts.

Making them usable involves drawing up contextual information (metadata) and methodologies for the indicators. They include metrics such as the number of people per 100,000 who are covered by early warning systems or the proportion of the population vulnerable to climate change that have access to mental health and psychosocial support.

There has been some arguing in Bonn over who should do this work. More government negotiators or more technical experts? Should there be an Indigenous Peoples representative on the taskforce?

But the main sticking point – and the one that could prevent any agreement before the talks end today – is, as usual, finance. Developing countries are united in demanding that the COP30 agreement to triple adaptation finance by 2035 be referenced in the GGA agreement here in Bonn. Most developed countries are opposed, having long wanted to keep the GGA and finance separate.

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Although the tripling goal has already been agreed, Bethan Laughlin from the Zoological Society of London said that restating in the GGA text here “sends an important political signal on the need to address the widening adaptation finance gap, and helps maintain pressure on developed countries to scale up their support”.

One of the concerns some developing countries had about the GGA indicators agreed at COP30 is that they will be blamed if they fail to meet them. Rich nations, on the other hand, likely fear that, if finance is linked to the GGA and they fail to triple it, it is they who will be held responsible for a lack of progress instead.

At the time of publication, governments were holding informal consultations to see if they could find a way forward. But, given that on Wednesday night they could not even agree on whether a new draft text should form a basis for negotiations, the odds of overcoming their differences in the remaining hours look slim.

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Bonn Bulletin: Finance row threatens to scupper work on adaptation goal

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