The focus of United Nations climate negotiations is shifting from curbing climate change to adapting to climate-driven extreme weather. The global adaptation targets pledged in the 2015 Paris Agreement are being overshadowed by talk of reducing fossil fuel use. Climate-vulnerable countries are fighting for more funding to cope with extreme weather events and avoid catastrophic humanitarian and economic losses. Adaptation is the second long-term goal of the Paris Agreement, with major fossil fuel emitters required to pay vulnerable developing countries to avoid catastrophic losses.