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. A man walks as Cyclone Freddy makes landfall over Vilankulos, Mozambique, February 24, 2023. (Photo: UNICEF Mozambique/223/Alfredo Zuniga/via Reuters) Last November, at Cop27 in Egypt, a pivotal decision was unanimously agreed by all countries …

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 …

Climate change is fundamentally reshaping patterns of human migration and displacement, triggering movement internally and internationally, and leaving many vulnerable people trapped in place. Migration in the face of climate change can be a positive choice, if done voluntarily and in an orderly manner. But it can also be unsafe and forced, creating problems for people who move and their …

Anthropogenic climate change loss and damage (L&D) is a key area of climate policy. Much of the L&D governance has been situated within the international climate regime. A major gap in L&D governance is the lack of understanding of how institutions are dealing with L&D policy and decision-making at national and industry scales. This study examines L&D governance with an …

ABSTRACT After decades of pressure from vulnerable developing countries, the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (the WIM) was established at the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 19) in 2013 to address costly damages from climate change. However, little progress has been made towards establishing a mechanism to fund loss and damage. The WIM’s Executive Committee issued its …

The world has entered the third era of loss and damage from human-induced climate change. In the first era, the experts were focused on completely avoiding the potential losses and damages from climate change by stopping – or at least drastically reducing – greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which caused the global temperature to rise. This understanding came from the scientific …

This study highlights the pressing need to mainstream human (im)mobility into climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction policy and strategy. It also raises important questions relevant to the ‘climate migration as adaptation’ debate. The paper evaluates the role of human (im)mobility in climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a nation experiencing some of the worst effects of climate change. Drawing on over …

In October 2022, Scotland hosted a conference which brought together international representatives and practitioners to articulate best practice and explore innovative new opportunities to mobilise finance for, and address Loss and Damage ahead of COP27. Insights for Accelerating Action on Loss and Damage Issues of climate justice, gender equality and human rights are central to the Scottish Government’s approach to addressing loss and damage …

In the context of climate policy, “loss and damage” refers to unavoided climate change impacts, including those from extreme weather events and slow-onset events such as sea-level rise, increasing temperatures, and loss of biodiversity. Some argue that focusing on loss and damage distracts industrialized countries from attempts to avoid losses and damages in the first place through decarbonization and adaptation. …

This report was developed jointly by UNDP and UNDRR in order to guide the next generation of disaster data systems (DDS). UNDP and UNDRR conducted an in-depth analysis of the current status of national disaster database systems in 13 countries globally by applying UNDP’s Digital Disaster Risk Reduction Maturity Model (DDRRMM) assessments, which were developed to provide guidance to governments, …