# The United Nations’ secretary general, António Guterres, says climate impacts are accelerating, yet adaptation finance is not keeping pace, leaving the world’s most vulnerable exposed. According to the UN Environment Programme’s new report, by 2035, adaptation finance needs in developing countries will be 12 times as much as current international public adaptation finance flows. Guterres says closing the adaptation gap is how lives can be protected, climate justice delivered, and a safer and more sustainable world be built.
UN warns that slow climate adaptation is threatening lives and economies