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 …

The Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has recently undertaken the decision to develop a two year pilot programme on developing a National Mechanism on Loss and Damage. This two year pilot phase will experiment with different aspects of loss and damage, including both fast onset and slow onset impacts, insurance as a potential coping mechanism, enabled migration etc. The objective of …