Climate impacts are heating up in 2023. Marked by heatwaves and wildfires across the globe, the month of July was the hottest on record for the planet. Recent events that have devastated climate vulnerable countries including the havoc created by Cyclone Freddy in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar, severe heatwaves in Asia, Cyclone Mocha and its aftermath in Myanmar and Bangladesh, to name just a few. These disasters bring home the reality of …

Flood-affected people get off a boat after crossing a stream in Jamalpur, Bangladesh, July 18, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain The litmus test of success for the U.N. climate summit will be the creation of an urgently needed fund to help the most vulnerable people Open letter to the incoming president of the COP28 U.N. climate summit Dear Dr Sultan Al …

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 …

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 …