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Addressing Climate-Induced Loss and Damage in South Coastal Bangladesh: Bridging Local Insights and National Policy Interventions

By Admin-lndweb
January 13, 2025
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This policy brief captures the key findings from Loss and Damage Policy Labs (LDPLs), a series of local and multi-level national policy dialogues held in Bangladesh in 2024. The LDPLs involved diverse stakeholders seeking to address climate-induced loss and damage (L&D) in Bangladesh, by fostering community-driven approaches and connecting local needs with the national policy landscape. The brief emphasizes local …

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Inclusion of Loss and Damage as a Subgoal in the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG)

By Admin-lndweb
November 19, 2024
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The policy brief demonstrates how incorporating Loss and Damage (L&D) into the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) being discussed currently at COP 29 will address not only the equity gap for developing countries, but also provide a well-rounded and well-defined climate finance landscape. By anchoring L&D as a distinct component within the NCQG, developing countries can secure finances to respond …

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Strengthening Loss and Damage Narrative: Building cohesive voices with policymakers and civil society in Bangladesh

By Admin-lndweb
December 9, 2023
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Bangladesh has been striving for years to shift its narrative from being climate vulnerability to resilience. Over the years, it has managed to build itself as one of the climate-resilient countries, despite the geographical vulnerability, through building efficient early warning systems, community-led disaster management, and women’s leadership in resilience efforts. However, communities in Bangladesh continue to face existential crisis due …

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Accounting for Non Economic Loss & Damage changes perspective of L&D as a whole

By Admin-lndweb
November 15, 2023
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Adverse impacts induced by climate change is already occurring and manifesting in the form of losses and damages which are expected to accelerate as climate change worsens and tipping points in eccological systems are reached. Failure to address climate-driven loss can trap populations in a state of vulnerability. Such kinds of losses and damages can be either economic or non-economic …

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The CDL Field Guide To Obstruction of Loss and Damage Finance in the UNFCCC Negotiations

By Admin-lndweb
February 19, 2023
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In more than thirty years of negotiations, countries have yet to establish a financing mechanism for losses and damages associated with climate change. We outline a new typology of 14 obstruction tactics countries have been used to delay progress on loss and damage finance. These tactics limit the scope of the issue, reduce transparency, manipulate language, and push non-transformative solutions. …

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Loss and Damage Finance: Four Periods of Obstruction in the UN Climate Negotiations

By Admin-lndweb
February 16, 2023
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Countries in the Global South have been advocating for funds to cover the losses and damagesthey will face due to climate change for more than three decades. In that same time, countriesin the Global North – the U.S. in particular – have repeatedly prevented those funds frombecoming a reality. In this briefing paper, we detail the history of obstruction to …

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Operationalization of the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage: Road to COP 27

By Admin-lndweb
February 13, 2023
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The Santiago Network on Loss and Damage (SNLD) was established at COP25/CMA2, “as part of the Warsaw International Mechanism,…for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, to catalyse the technical assistance of relevant organizations, bodies, networks and experts, for the implementation of relevant approaches at the local, national and regional level, in …

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Glasgow Dialogue needs to deliver on Loss and Damage Finance Facility

By Admin-lndweb
February 13, 2023
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With a 1 degree increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels, climate change is already causing mayhem in different parts of the world. The term Loss and Damage (capitalised letters) refers to the political debate under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) following the establishment of the Warsaw Mechanism for Loss and Damage in 2013, which is to …

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Non-economic loss and damage: closing the knowledge gap

By Admin-lndweb
January 26, 2023
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Climate-related loss and damage is escalating, with many countries experiencing new forms of climate impact, of increasing intensity. The focus until now has been on calculating the economic repercussions of climate risk. Its wider impacts and resulting hidden costs of climate change — such as loss of cultural heritage — are less understood and harder to quantify. This knowledge gap …

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