EU, 4 member countries to provide over 1bn euros for climate adaptation in Africa

The European Union (EU) climate policy chief Frans Timmermans told the COP27 summit in Sharm El-Sheikh on Wednesday that the bloc and four member countries will provide more than one billion euros for climate adaptation in Africa.

He added that the four members are France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Denmark and that other countries could join.

The sum is a starting point, he said.

Timmermans also said the EU will provide 60 million euros for loss and damage and will present ideas today on how to take loss and damage negotiations forward.

No fewer than 154 countries signed the UNFCCC in June 1992, agreeing to combat harmful human impacts on the climate.