We need to pay for climate adaptation in Africa

Here in the temperate north, climate change can feel like a distant threat. It sort of hovers there as an abstract concern. We know we ought to do something about it eventually, but many find it hard to treat climate change with any sense of urgency.

This is what I call climate privilege, because in plenty of other places the threat is much more obvious. It is already a matter of survival, and people are struggling to adapt. Often these are places where carbon emissions are low, and that hav...