Join us for a crucial Pre-COP29 briefing on Loss and Damage finance, focusing on supporting the most vulnerable communities experiencing the impacts of climate change. As the global community approaches COP29, a key event known as the “Finance COP,” it is essential to address the growing need for a distinct financial mechanism beyond adaptation and humanitarian responses. This Loss and …

The recent creation of a loss and damage fund under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was heralded as a major breakthrough for Global South negotiators. As details of the fund are currently being negotiated, some analysts are calling for ‘objective’ means through which funding would be allocated to ‘particularly vulnerable’ developing countries. On the basis of a …

At COP27, parties decided to set up and establish a new Loss and Damage Fund and tasked a Transitional Committee with the technical work to develop the Fund’s modalities and also to address broader funding arrangements to respond to loss and damage.  The Fund, once established, should become the central player in an emerging loss and damage finance landscape to support developing countries on …

Global biodiversity loss has been disproportionately driven by consumption of people in rich nations. The concept of ‘loss and damage’ — familiar from international agreements on climate change — should be considered for the effects of biodiversity loss in countries of the Global South. For decades, countries across the Global South have been calling on rich countries to accept responsibility …