Category: Loss and Damage
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Rising tide of loss and damage advances cause in U.N. climate deal
(This article was originally posted by Thomson Reuters Foundation here) As the latest round of U.N. climate talks drew to a close in Bonn on Friday, the tiny island state of Dominica was beginning a second day of national mourning for more than 30 people killed a week ago by a tropical storm, and some 35 reported…
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Hurricane Katrina to Cyclone Pam: whose losses count more?
(This article has originally published on rtcc.org and can be found here) This year marked the tenth anniversary of hurricane Katrina that had devastating consequences on New Orleans and the entire Gulf coast of the United States. The event killed at least 986, displaced up to 600,000 for over a month, and caused an estimated USD…
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Exclusion of ‘loss and damage’ would make Paris deal useless
(This article has been originally published on rtcc.org, available here) The UN’s climate body has kicked off its year of intensive work with a meeting this week in Geneva. The process will culminate in Paris in December, where world leaders hope to sign off a new agreement that will deal with all elements of global…
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Big oil must pay for climate change harm to world’s poorest
(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here) Typhoon-hit Filipinos are paying with their lives for climate change. A levy on fossil fuels could help protect them The residents of the Philippines region of Tacloban know what loss and damage from climate change looks like. This weekend, this exact same region is now bracing for…
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2014 Resilience Academy: Participant Pledges
The Resilience Academy was held in Frauenwörth Abbey on the Fraueninsel on Lake Chiemsee earlier this year. Organised by the Munich Re Foundation, the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and ICCCAD, applications for the Resilience Academies run every two years with participants meeting the first year in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the second…
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Loss and damage: a guide for the confused
(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here). What is loss and damage? How does it work? And why do poor countries care so much? For many people this issue of ‘loss and damage’ seems to have come out of the blue and is still mired in confusion. At the nineteenth Conference of Parties…
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Loss and Damage in Khulna: A First Glance
I thought the field trip would be nice escape from my routine in Dhaka but I never imagined it would become an inspiration to my work on loss and damage. More often than not, loss and damage is perceived as a calculation of monetary impacts following an extreme event, and more controversially as a method…
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Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage Workshop
The one-day workshop will be hosted by the Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage and invites organizations conducting research or interested in conducting research on loss and damage. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the fourth annual Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum that will be held in Kuala Lumpur from 1-3 October…
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New Developments on Loss & Damage
On June 12, 2013, ICCCAD in collaboration with Germanwatch held a workshop to disseminate research findings from the Loss and Damage in Bangladesh project. Titled ‘Loss and Damage in Bangladesh: A review of Challenges and Opportunities from Climbing a learning Curve to Understand Loss and Damage at the National level’, the workshop took place at…
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ICCCAD, recognised as a global leader on Loss & Damage
For the past year and a half ICCCAD has been facilitating a process to enhance understanding of loss and damage in Bangladesh and how to address it as part of the Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative, which is being implemented globally with our partners Germanwatch, the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative and United Nations…