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Day 5, COP31 Update:

New UN figures say funding for farming and food fell 10% last year, and 20% in Africa. The farmers who grow our food got just 5% of climate funding. Money must arrive before the disaster, not after. #COP31

Day 5, COP31 Update:

Finance and Trade day closes week one. FAST meets at 01:00 Toronto, ResilAfrica launches at 08:30.

UNEP's test: $305bn a year needed by 2035, $28-32bn flowing. Targets are not transfers. #COP31

Day 4, COP31:

AIIB–Türkiye agreed a record $1.6bn climate policy deal as the leaders' summit closed. UNDP's El Niño test: $36bn to act now, $73bn if we wait. WFP: 49m people more could face acute hunger by end-2027. #COP31

Day 4, COP31 Updates:

Africa Day puts water first, and Ghana's El Nino session has a real deadline, a very strong El Nino peaking by January.

Finance is still targets, not cash: SPIRE Asia aims for $500m against a $400bn-a-year Asian need. #COP31

Day 3, COP31 Update:

Abiy Ahmed set the finance test, how much, by when, on what terms, money early enough to act before the shock.

SPIRE Asia aims for $500m for Southeast Asian farm adaptation. Still targets, not transfers. #COP31