Belem: India remains firmly committed to domestic climate adaptation but urgently needs a significant scale-up in global adaptation finance as the current gap widens, Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav said at the UN COP30 summit in Brazil.

Speaking at the Baku High-Level Dialogue on Adaptation on Thursday, Yadav said COP30 must send a strong political signal that “adaptation is not an optional add-on but an essential investment.”

He warned that developing nations are facing a rapidly growing shortfall in funding:

“The 2025 Adaptation Gap Report estimates that developing countries will need between USD 310–365 billion annually by 2035, while current flows are around USD 26 billion only.”

Yadav also cautioned that the Glasgow Climate Pact target of doubling public adaptation finance t

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