Non-economic loss and damage (NELD) or non-market loss and damage refers to the adverse consequences of climate change on tangible and intangible items, that have not been or cannot be adapted to. A prevailing characteristics of NELD items are that they are not traded in markets and therefore have no market value. For this reason they pose significant challenges to decision-makers and make estimates on future cost of climate change grossly under represent the reality on the ground.

Relevant Publications/Papers

• NELD Expert Workshop 2015: Outcomes and Main Messages
• UNFCCC Technical Paper (2013): Non-Econonmic Loss and Damage in the Context of the UNFCCC Work Programme on Loss and Damage
• Morrissey & Oliver-Smith (2013): Perspectives on Non-Economic Loss and Damage
  
• ADB Study on Non-Economic Losses and Damages Report (Andrei, Rabbani & Khan 2015): Non-Economic Loss and Damage Caused by Climatic Stressors in Selected Coastal Districts of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies (BCAS)
• Future makers or future takers? A scenario analysis of climate change and the Great Barrier Reef (Erin Bohensky, James R.A. Butler, Robert Costanza, et al. Global Environmental Change, 2011)
• Modeling the dynamics of the integrated earth system andthe value of global ecosystem services using the GUMBO model (Roelof Boumans, Robert Costanza, Joshua Farley et al.  Ecological Economics, 2002)
• Changes in the global value of ecosystem services (Robert Costanza, Rudolf de Groot, Paul Sutton et al. Global Environmental Change, 2013)
• An Overarching Goal for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Robert Costanza, Jacqueline McGlade, Hunter Lovins, and Ida Kubiszewski, Solutions, 2014)
• The Perfect Spill: Solutions for Averting the Next Deepwater Horizon (Robert Costanza, David Batker, John W. Day, Jr., et al. Solutions, 2010)
• Claim the Sky! (Robert Costanza, Solutions, 2015)
• Achieving Sustainable Societies: Lessons from Modelling the Ancient Maya (Scott Heckbert, Robert Costanza, and Lael Parrott, Solutions, 2014)
• The nature of wellbeing: How nature’s ecosystem services contribute to the wellbeing of New Zealand and New Zealanders (Lin Roberts, Ann Brower, Geoff Kerr, et al. Department of Conservation, Wellington, 2015)
• Report to the ELD Project – Data and Methodology Working Group: Toward an Integrated Ecology and Economics of Land Degradation and Restoration: Methods, Data, and Models (Katrine Grace Turner, Sharolyn Anderson, Mauricio Gonzalez Chang, et al. 2014)
• The Ethical Responsibility of the Loss and Damage Mechanism: a consideration of Non- Economic Loss and Human Rights  (Dr. Andrea C. Simonelli, 2015)
• Defining Loss and Damage: Key challenges and considerations for developing an operational definition(Alexis Durand and Saleemul Huq, ICCAD 2015)

Projects/Initiatives

• Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative
• Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage
• Addressing Non-Economic Losses and Damages Associated with Climate Change: Learning from the Recent Past Extreme Climatic Events for Future Planning
• Klimalog – Research and dialogue for a climate-smart and just transformation (German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) )
• Institute for Global and Environmental Strategies (IGES)