Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the implications for her policies of the Power Shift Africa report, entitled Adapt or Die: An analysis of African climate adaptation strategies, published on 25 February 2022.

The UK recognises how urgent and important it is to ensure countries most vulnerable to climate change, including those in Sub-Saharan Africa, are able to respond to the risks they face. At COP26 the UK committed £143.5 million to support African countries to adapt to the impact of extreme weather and changing climate.

The UK is fully committed to working with countries to honour the commitments made in the Glasgow Climate Pact at COP26, including through the Glasgow-Sharm el Sheikh work programme to deliver on the Global Goal on Adaptation; developed countries' commitment to at least double their collective provision of climate finance for adaptation to developing countries by 2025; and the Glasgow Dialogue on Loss and Damage. This is in addition to the Glasgow Leaders' Declaration on Forests and Land Use agreed at COP26, aiming to end deforestation by 2030 in Africa, supported by the Congo Basin Pledge, where 11 other donors in committing $1.5 billion for the protection of the Congo Basin Forests, and the land-mark $8.5 billion deal to support South Africa's just energy transition from coal with the UK, France, Germany, the US and the European Union - the first of its kind worldwide.