{"id":20094,"date":"2025-12-16T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/%d9%81%d8%ac%d9%88%d8%a9-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%85%d9%88%d9%8a%d9%84-%d9%88%d9%82%d8%b5%d9%88%d8%b1-%d9%81%d9%8a-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%aa%d9%83%d9%8a%d9%81-%d9%84%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d9%84\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:35:46","slug":"delayed-finance-weak-adaptation-why-cop30-fell-short-for-the-mena-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/mena\/en\/delayed-finance-weak-adaptation-why-cop30-fell-short-for-the-mena-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Finance, Weak Adaptation: Why COP30 Fell Short for the MENA Region"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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COP30 was meant to deliver for the global south. Instead, blurred finance pathways, vague commitments and delayed adaptation finance targets failed to match the urgency on the ground, leaving MENA countries exposed to worsening climate extremes.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n

COP30 in Bel\u00e9m<\/a> was less about grand new promises and more about testing whether the system can finally deliver for frontline countries, especially for the MENA region. From finance to adaptation, COP30 saw a bumpy process and a complicated outcome overshadowed by voluntary presidency initiatives that do not provide clarity on how they would be embedded into the actual UNFCCC process. <\/p>\n\n

On finance, the headline outcome was the Bel\u00e9m Package and its companion Global Mutir\u00e3o decision (Mutir\u00e3o is a Brazilian Portuguese term referring to collective effort). These two sketch a roadmap to mobilise around USD 1.3 trillion a year in climate finance for developing countries by 2035, building on the New Collective Quantified Goal agreed in Baku last year. However, this is a compromised timeline. A core part of this outcome package was text explicitly stating \u201ccall for efforts\u201d to at least triple adaptation finance by 2035 compared to 2025 levels. <\/p>\n\n

While this is clearly weak language, it does send an important political signal that the historically mitigation-centric focus of climate finance is starting, at least rhetorically, to move toward a more balanced approach that includes adaptation. However, the package still falls far short of what vulnerable countries and civil society have been calling for. Rather than a binding commitment to triple adaptation finance by 2030, building on the 2025 adaptation finance target of USD 40 billion, Parties only agreed to a voluntary roadmap to reach a tripling by 2035, and from an even weaker baseline. This combination of a diluted starting point and a delayed 2035 horizon means that many frontline communities will not receive urgently needed adaptation support in time, increasing the risk of irreversible climate impacts and escalating loss and damage.<\/p>\n\n

For Arab countries, this matters enormously. The MENA region is already living 1.5\u00b0C through lethal heatwaves, water stress and food system shocks. Tripling adaptation finance sounds big, but spread to 2035 and with no hard burden-sharing formula, it risks arriving too slowly for countries like Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Iraq. Civil society across Africa and the Middle East has already warned that delayed timelines, vague grant-to-loan ratios and weak access provisions could \u201ctriple the trouble\u201d rather than closing the gap. <\/p>\n\n

COP30 served as the first major checkpoint for countries\u2019 Nationally Determined Contribution submissions (NDC 3.0) – the third generation of climate pledges due in 2025 under the Paris Agreement\u2019s five-year cycle. By the close of Bel\u00e9m, at least eight Arab states had submitted their third-generation NDCs: the UAE <\/a>(as early as 2024), Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Qatar and Bahrain. Most of these NDCs extend targets to 2035, expand sector coverage (e.g. Industrial Processes, transport, cooling, oil and gas), and introduce more detailed governance and transparency systems. But a common thread runs through them: ambition is heavily conditional on finance and technology transfer. Without real delivery on the new finance goal, countries with limited fiscal space and resources, much of their mitigation and adaptation listed on paper will stay aspirational. <\/p>\n\n

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