Tag: Loss and Damage
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The Climate Action Summit in New York has failed to deliver
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guitterez, has been holding an annual Climate Action Summit on the margins of the UN General Assembly in September each year. He invites world leaders to come and share what they are doing to tackle climate change, the biggest human-induced global crisis. Over the years, his language to…
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What can the Loss and Damage Facility learn from the Green Climate Fund?
Summary: This analysis draws from research on the decision-making and approval process in the GCF to explore how institutional arrangements and funding guidance shape the funding process and outcomes for the L&D facility. Insights are based on an analysis of GCF board meeting deliberations between 2016 and 2021 during which the board discussed 181 proposals,…
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Surviving the aftermath of heavy snowfall in Merak, Bhutan: A story of tackling Loss and Damage
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”]In Merak, Bhutan, we meet Ms. Pema Wangmo, who, with the help of her community, worked to restore greenhouses destroyed by climate change-induced snow fall. This is the fifth of the “Voices from the Frontline (Phase III)” stories by GRP and ICCCAD supported by Irish Aid.[/quotes] In the Merak community of Bhutan, we…
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Advancing the Glasgow Dialogue on funding to address Loss and Damage
One of the outcomes of the COP26 held in United Kingdom’s Glasgow in November, 2021 was a decision to hold a series of three annual Glasgow Dialogues on funding to address Loss and Damage, with each dialogue to be held in Bonn at the annual pre-COP event. I just attended the second annual Glasgow Dialogue,…
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Climate Tribune | April 2023
Climate Tribune | April 2023 Articles in this series Scopes for aligning LLA with the indigenous customary laws in Chittagong Hill Tracts by Savio Rousseau Rozario & Hla Thoaiching Marma On ‘monitoring locally-led adaptation and resilience’ by Sarah Farheen Khan Starting with the first mile to support effective early warning systems at scale by Shahnawaz…
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Loss and damage finance should apply to biodiversity loss
Global biodiversity loss has been disproportionately driven by consumption of people in rich nations. The concept of ‘loss and damage’ — familiar from international agreements on climate change — should be considered for the effects of biodiversity loss in countries of the Global South. For decades, countries across the Global South have been calling on…
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Understanding the concepts of adaptation and loss and damage
A major prediction has come out of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week, which says the world will almost certainly cross the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global atmospheric temperature rise within the next five years or so. This confirms that the world has already entered the era of losses and damages attributable…
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CLIMATE INDUCED DISPLACEMENT IN BANGLADESH THROUGH THE LENS OF ‘LOSS AND DAMAGE’
This article looks at the economic and non-economic ‘‘loss and damage’ (L&D) of communities in Bangladesh experiencing climate induced displacement. Highlighting the potential of the innovative Climate Resilient Migrant Friendly Towns project, developed by ICCCAD, to provide durable solutions to climate IDPs, the authors make the case that L&D funding should prioritize people displaced by…
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Climate Tribune | January 2023
Climate Tribune | January 2023 Articles in the series ‘Mapping of the losses and damages’ by Afroz Shah ‘Enhancing the ability of Sri Lankan agricultural communities to cope with loss and damage from severe floods’ by Amila Lankapura ‘The invisible role of local communities in adapting to climate change’ by Gonzalo Pérez E ‘From framing to financing’ by…
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Here are 3 suggestions for the new Loss and Damage fund from Prof Saleemul Huq
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…
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Global loss and damage initiative launched in Dhaka
It aims to support both governments and civil societies in the vulnerable countries to enhance their knowledge of and responses to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change.
This week, the UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), together with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), launched a global initiative in Dhaka to address loss and damage from human-induced climate change. The initiative, called the Alliance for Locally-Led Approaches for Transformative Action on Loss and Damage (ALL ACT on…
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Everything you need to know about the Loss and Damage Fund
The series of extreme weather events in 2022 fuelled by climate change that devastated lives and livelihoods of millions – from the floods in Pakistan and China to droughts in Somalia, Ethiopia, Brazil, and Europe – set a clarion call for the long-awaited climate finance, also known as loss and damage finance. After years of…