The topic of Loss and Damage from Human induced climate change has been a politically sensitive one for many years as the developed countries feared that it would open them to claims of compensation based on their liability.  It was only in COP19 in Warsaw, Poland in 2013 that all the countries in the UNFCCC agreed to set up the …

After COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 funding to address Loss and Damage started outside the UNFCCC initiated by Scotland.  Then in 2022 many other governments and Foundations also started funding outside the UNFCCC. At COP27 in Egypt in November 2022 the historic decision to establish a funding scheme within the UNFCCC. Moving towards COP28 to be held in Dubai in …