Somalia Seeks $6.3 Billion for Climate Adaptation

Brazil, 8 November 2025 — Somalia has unveiled a $6.3 billion National Adaptation Plan (NAP), calling on the international  community to pay special attention on climate-vulnerable countries by treating climate finance as a matter of “justice, not charity.”

The appeal was made by Deputy Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama on Friday during the ongoing global climate conference in Belém, Brazil.Jama said the  2025 plan is aimed at helping Somalia confront escalating droughts, floods, and food insecurity — impacts that continue to devastate millions despite the country contributing less than 0.019 per cent  of global greenhouse gas emissions. Somalia is currently ranked among the top most climate-vulnerable nations in the world.

“The climate crisis for Somalis is not tomorrow — it is here and happening,” he said, describing how families walk miles for water, pastoralists lose herds to drought, and children suffer from hunger and displacement.

The $6.3 billion plan seeks to build resilience through early warning systems, climate-smart agriculture, resilient health services, and climate-proof infrastructure. It also places a strong focus on empowering women and youth, who bear the brunt of climate shocks.

Somalia’s leadership emphasized that global climate finance remains deeply unequal. Of the $1.5 trillion in climate finance recorded globally in 2022, fragile and conflict-affected countries received less than 5 per cent.

 By 2020, Somalia had accessed only about $300 million, representing under 1 per cent of what is needed to adapt to the crisis.