Background With climate change impact accelerating, it has become evident that vulnerable communities and countries in the Global South are affected most. Every year, these communities are exposed to severe losses and damages caused by the impacts of human-induced climate change. The impact and the resulting losses and damages are beyond the adaptive capacity of the developing countries. The problem …

  As an old Native American saying goes, “When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.” We are at the brink of a climate crisis. According to climate scientists, the earth is heating up at an unprecedented rate, thanks to all the …

We are excited to announce a unique opportunity for storytellers and advocates to participate in our upcoming project, “Voices from the Frontlines in Bangladesh.” As part of this initiative, we are seeking compelling narratives that shed light on the profound experiences of loss and damage caused by climate change in Bangladesh. Through this call for applications, we aim to amplify …

“We are born on this boat [and] we live on the boat. This is our home … without our boat wewould have no means to eat. If we did not have our boats, we would just die.[i]– Member of the Manta Community“ The impacts of climate change have internally displaced more than 30 million people worldwide in 2022 alone.[i] Climate …

Anthropogenic climate change is causing widespread losses and damages to what people value. To date, non-economic loss and damage assessments are commonly guided by predefined ‘types’ of non-economic losses, similar to those proposed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Instead, we draw from studies conducted in Bangladesh and Fiji to emphasize the benefits of a values-based assessment …

Loss and Damage in Bangladesh Climate change-related loss and damage (L&D) is already a lived reality for people around the world, threatening their fundamental human rights and trapping them in poverty. According to the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) WGII (2022), the most vulnerable people and systems are disproportionately affected by climate change impacts. Poor and vulnerable communities, who are …

Back in the early 1990’s the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu, a founding member of the Alliance of Small Island States AOSIS, called on what would become the United Framework Convention on Climate Change: “help us pay for addressing the impacts from sea level rise.” Essentially, the first global call for finance to address loss and damage. Back then, when …

As climate change exacerbates displacement and loss in Bangladesh, Saleemul Huq and Lutfor Rahman call for a collaborative global effort to address loss and damage funding. The upcoming COP28 in Dubai may be a game changer. The world has entered a new era of climate change reality. It is not a theoretical concept or a distant future possibility anymore, but …

Mongla in Bangladesh is facing adverse climate change impacts. What can we learn from the town’s efforts to minimise the impacts using its capacity and leadership?  The town of Mongla or Mongla Port Paurashava in Bangladesh is situated in the southernmost part of the country at the confluence of the Pashur River and the Bay of Bengal. The city is …

Globally, people are disproportionally affected by climate change consistently and are enforced to adapt, with or without external assistance. Nonetheless, the current mitigation and adaptation efforts have been deemed insufficient to resist losses and damages (L&D), particularly in vulnerable countries from the Global South. Amongst this countries, mainly women, people with disability, and other marginalized communities with less adaptive capacity, …