Wealthy countries are failing to meet their promised targets to provide a funding “lifeline” to help poorer nations prepare for worsening climate calamities, the UN warned Wednesday.

Efforts to adapt to the increasingly dangerous and costly impacts of climate change — from building defensive sea walls, to planting drought-resistant crops — are set to be a major focus of United Nations climate negotiations in Brazil from November 10.

Storms supercharged by hotter seas, devastating floods, heatwaves and wildfires are intensifying across the planet as a result of warming driven by humanity’s burning of oil, gas and coal.

But the promised international funding is far off track, according to the latest Adaptation Gap report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).

“Climate impacts are accele

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