As the 28th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) commences tomorrow, expectations are soaring, especially regarding the crucial agendas of Loss and Damage (L&D) in 2023. The operationalization of both the Santiago network and the L&D funding arrangement will take center stage of discussions. COP 27 in 2022 marked a breakthrough for the matter of L&D with an …

Globally, people are disproportionally affected by climate change consistently and are enforced to adapt, with or without external assistance. Nonetheless, the current mitigation and adaptation efforts have been deemed insufficient to resist losses and damages (L&D), particularly in vulnerable countries from the Global South. Amongst this countries, mainly women, people with disability, and other marginalized communities with less adaptive capacity, …

ABSTRACT After decades of pressure from vulnerable developing countries, the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (the WIM) was established at the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 19) in 2013 to address costly damages from climate change. However, little progress has been made towards establishing a mechanism to fund loss and damage. The WIM’s Executive Committee issued its …