Cop27 resulted in the historic decision of setting up a loss and damage fund to help vulnerable countries, but success depends on a few key actions. Last November, at Cop27 in Egypt, a pivotal decision was unanimously agreed by all countries to establish a funding mechanism to address loss and damages caused by human induced climate change. The process for …
Loss & Damage Finance
After COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 funding to address Loss and Damage started outside the UNFCCC initiated by Scotland. Then in 2022 many other governments and Foundations also started funding outside the UNFCCC. At COP27 in Egypt in November 2022 the historic decision to establish a funding scheme within the UNFCCC. Moving towards COP28 to be held in Dubai in …
The three stages of Loss and Damage
The topic of Loss and Damage from Human induced climate change has been a politically sensitive one for many years as the developed countries feared that it would open them to claims of compensation based on their liability. It was only in COP19 in Warsaw, Poland in 2013 that all the countries in the UNFCCC agreed to set up the …
Sharing Adaptation Failure to Improve Adaptation Outcomes
Sharing lessons is critical for ensuring that finite funding for climate change adaptation is deployed in ways that provide the most value and impact. Successes are celebrated, but failures are habitually obscured, leaving a major knowledge base untapped. This commentary calls for the urgent sharing of failures as a source of critical learning. Authors: RossWestoby1 Mohammad FeisalRahman2 Karen E.McNamara3 SaleemulHuq4 …
Planning and Implementation of Adaptation in Bangladesh: Past Present and Future Description
Based on a number of plans, Bangladesh has been implementing “Adaptation” at both national and local levels for over 15 years. With Prof. Saleemul Huq, Prof. Mizan Khan and ICCCAD having a long-standing active involvement in the process, they reflect on the progress of the country. Example fallback content: This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: …
Look to the horizon
What’s the difference between development and climate change adaptation projects? As the Green Climate Fund (GCF) attempts to ramp up its funding for adaptation projects, the UN fund continues to face a major challenge: how to differentiate a development project and a climate change adaptation project. Already two projects – one from Bangladesh and the other from Ethiopia – have …
