New funding, totalling $55-million, to help African countries to adapt to the effects of climate change, was announced by four West European countries at the Africa Adaptation Summit on Tuesday. The summit, being held in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, was organised by the Global Centre on Adaptation (GCA) and was attended by leading figures in governments, businesses and the United Nations. In order of the size of their contributions, the donor countries concerned were the UK, allocating $23-million, Norway, assigning $15-million, France, with $10-million, and Denmark, with $7-million. The GCA expected that this State funding would allow it to mobilise a total of up to $5-billion to fund climate adaptation projects across the continent.