The planned relocation of entire communities to less hazard-exposed destinations is an increasingly salient climate change adaptation strategy but often results in maladaptive livelihood outcomes. There needs to be understanding of how planning decisions affect outcomes—relocated people’s access to sustainable livelihoods, including physical, economic, natural, human, social and cultural assets. Here, drawing on data from 14 completed flood-related relocation cases, …

A Non-Economic Loss and Damage Explainer WHAT IS NON-ECONOMIC LOSS AND DAMAGE? Due to a failure of rapid mitigation and effective adaptation, climate change negatively affects human societies and the natural systems they rely on for material and immaterial wellbeing. This abject failure of countries, particularly in the Global North, to stabilise their greenhouse gas emissions and enable sufficient and …

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 …

May 24 @ 3:20 pm – 5:00 pm UTC+7 ICCCAD and IFSD are hosting a session on ‘Decolonising climate resilience – What can we learn from Adaptation to Loss and Damage?’ , 24th May at 15.20 (UTC+7) at Riverside 5. This session examines how colonial mindsets imperil climate action around adaptation and loss and damage. We’ll draw on positive examples to …

Abstract Despite mitigation and adaptation efforts, the residual risks of climate change will continue to impact the most vulnerable communities globally. Highly exposed regions, such as the Pacific Islands, will continue to experience profound negative loss and damage as a result of climate change, which will challenge current ways of life. Knowledge on the extent to which regional and national …

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 …