Yet, in discussions on the financing of climate adaptation, calls for mainstreaming are viewed with suspicion. Developed countries have committed themselves to providing new and additional finance for adaptation in developing countries, but mainstreaming adaptation into development would make it more difficult to identify whether support for adaptation is indeed new and additional or is, instead, a diversion of existing development finance.
This paper outlines that dilemma and calls on developed countries, in particular, the European Union and its member states, to give priority to restoring mutual trust between developed and developing countries in the climate negotiations.
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