A major prediction has come out of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week, which says the world will almost certainly cross the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global atmospheric temperature rise within the next five years or so. This confirms that the world has already entered the era of losses and damages attributable to human-induced climate change and …

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 …

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 …

A climate activist holds a placard during a protest organised by Extinction Rebellion to denounce the lack of measures against climate change ahead of COP26 in front of the Westfield Forum des Halles shopping centre, in Paris on October 31, 2021. Photo: Reuters On the last official day of the 26th UN climate conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland last year, …

A family moves to a safe place with their belongings after the flood situation worsened in Munshiganj district, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 25, 2020. Floods have become more frequent in countries like Bangladesh, which faces the worst impacts of climate change. File photo: Reuters At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last …

Last year, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) for climate change agreed to establish a loss and damage (L&D) finance facility to support the recovery from loss and damage caused by the increasing impacts of climate change. The decision to establish an L&D fund can be regarded as just a political win; it is not a climate win yet. …

The series of extreme weather events in 2022 fuelled by climate change that devastated lives and livelihoods of millions – from the floods in Pakistan and China to droughts in Somalia, Ethiopia, Brazil, and Europe – set a clarion call for the long-awaited climate finance, also known as loss and damage finance. After years of hard negotiations, at the world’s …

Almost three-fourths of the Sylhet region in northeast Bangladesh was inundated earlier this year due to the heaviest rainfall the region has seen in over 60 years, marooning millions and uprooting thousands. FILE PHOTO: SHEIKH NASIR Over the last few weeks, a number of developments around the world has brought forth the need to hold polluters responsible for the loss …

Climate activists protest outside the Cop27 climate conference in Egypt. Photo: AFP COP27 ended a day overtime on November 20 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt with the historic achievement of a new fund for addressing loss and damage in vulnerable developing countries. Today, I want to tell the story of how this was achieved. The demand for rich countries to shoulder …

During the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland last year, developing countries put forward a proposal to create a Finance Facility for Loss and Damage (FFLD), which was not accepted by developed countries. Instead, they replaced it by setting up the Glasgow Dialogue on Finance for Loss and Damage, which would carry on for three years before …