16th meeting of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage CONSTITUTED BODY MEETINGS AND EVENTS Event language English City: Bonn Country: Germany Organiser :UNFCCC Mandated event Click to know More >>
SUBSIDIARY BODY EVENTS Room: Chamber Hall Venue: World Conference Centre in Bonn (WCCB) City: Bonn Country: Germany Organiser: UNFCCC Click to know More >>
SUBSIDIARY BODY EVENTS Time: 13:15 – 14:45 Event language: English Room:WCCB – Room Bonn Venue:WCCB City:Bonn Country:Germany Organiser:UNFCCC Click to know More >>
The Santiago Network on Loss and Damage (SNLD) was established at COP25/CMA2, “as part of the Warsaw International Mechanism,…for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change, to catalyse the technical assistance of relevant organizations, bodies, networks and experts, for the implementation of relevant approaches at the local, national and regional level, in …
What is Loss and Damage finance? With a 1 degree increase in temperature above pre-industrial levels, climate change is already causing mayhem in different parts of the world. The term Loss and Damage (capitalised letters) refers to the political debate under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) following the establishment of the Warsaw Mechanism for Loss and …
Articles in the series “LOSS AND DAMAGE, WHAT’S NEXT FROM SCOTLAND? by Nicola Sturgeon“LOSSES AND DAMAGES IN A CLIMATE CHANGED WORLD” by Saleemul Huq, Ian Burton, and Simon Anderson“CLIMATE VULNERABLE NATIONS STAND UP TO MOBILIZE FUNDING FACILITIES FOR LOSS AND DAMAGE” by Md Abul Kalam Azad“ADDRESSING LOSS AND DAMAGE IS AN EQUITY AND JUSTICE ISSUE” by Harjeet Singh, Sindra Sharma, …
At the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow last November, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, speaking on behalf of 55 vulnerable developing countries under the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF), put forward a demand to set up a facility to finance loss and damage from human-induced climate change. This demand was included in the draft of the Glasgow …
The topic of Loss and Damage from Human induced climate change has been a politically sensitive one for many years as the developed countries feared that it would open them to claims of compensation based on their liability. It was only in COP19 in Warsaw, Poland in 2013 that all the countries in the UNFCCC agreed to set up the …
The 2015 Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) introduces a ‘transparency framework’, to promote accountability in the implementation of the Agreement. A set of “modalities, procedures and guidelines”, agreed upon in 2018, sketch how to put the transparency framework into practical operation. These “modalities, procedures and guidelines” include a voluntary provision to report information …
On 9 August 2021, the science working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report showed that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are responsible for approximately 1.1°C of warming since 1850-1900. Climate change is not just what is happening now and will happen in the future but also what has been happening for over a century. Today …
