The Transitional Committee (TC) created at COP27 has acomplex task to reach solutions on loss and damage financingthis year. There is strong opportunity for progress: from settingup a new dedicated fund to designing wider fundingarrangements to address loss and damage and identifying newsources of finance. The list is long and time is short: so how canthe TC work efficiently, contribute …
The climate crisis is one of the greatest threats humankind is facing. It is not gender neutral, so the response cannot be gender neutral either. Rising flood waters all too often affect household work. Climate change is exacerbating existing inequalities. Women and marginalised groups bear the brunt, but get the least support. The climate crisis is causing losses and damages …
People get on a boat as they look for shelter during a widespread flood in the northeastern part of the country, in Sylhet, Bangladesh, June 19, 2022. REUTERS/Kazi Salahuddin Razu What’s the context? A group of poor countries and island states will work out how to find and use finance to help communities deal with climate harm Countries to set …
Together with ACT Alliance, Bread for the World publishes the Analysis: Addressing the Protection Gap – Human Mobility and the Climate Crisis in International Frameworks, compiled by Dr. Katherine Braun as a lead author. The connection between “Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change (HMCCC)” is increasingly recognized as a pressing issue of our times. For years, the ACT …
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon announces another £5m of funding for loss and damage at COP27 to support communities impacted by slow-onset events and non-economic loss and damage. Image credit: Teo Ormond-Skeaping ©. On the first day of COP26 in Glasgow, the Scottish Government made headlines as it became the first developed country to explicitly pledge finance to address loss and …
Rohit, a local leader in Bangladesh, in front of the space where his house once stood (Credit: Douwe van Schie) The loss and damage conversation largely centres around the economics of climate impacts. Losses and damages which are difficult to value on a monetary scale are termed ‘non-economic losses and damages’, often left out of the equation, and often misunderstood. …
Countries and communities are exposed to increasingly harmful effects of climate change, leading to loss and damage. These concerns must be urgently addressed, especially in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). After decades of lobbying by LDCs, SIDS and others, the world has woken up to this situation, and negotiators at the 27th United Nations Climate …
COP after COP, the global climate action community or the ‘Conference of Parties’ as it is officially called, has made endless efforts to define, measure, and attribute Loss and Damage. From Agreement to Protocol, from Mechanism and Network to Conference and Declaration to Dialogue1, we have been only discussing and asserting the need for climate action. Even the science2 of …
Youth call for action to address loss and damage caused by climate change The climate crisis is causing severe damage and irreversible loss to people and the planet. Extreme weather events, including floods, storms, droughts, heat waves and wildfires, are becoming more frequent and more severe every year. The stakes are high for today’s youth – the largest youth generation …
‘Cost of Delay’ shines a light on how oil companies could comfortably compensate developing countries for the damage their products cause A half-year’s profits by six of the biggest fossil fuel companies would cover the cost of climate-related disasters in developing countries, with billions to spare, a new report shows. Oxfam Ireland is among the 100 organisations behind the report which …
