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 …

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, …

This event brought together least developed countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to jointly generate a shared understanding on what is needed to tackle loss and damage. Tackling loss and damage is not straightforward and there isn’t one solution that fits all. The causes and impacts of loss and damage are highly varied, from sudden climate shocks to …

Justice in Finance for Climate Change Adaptation and Loss and Damage: Fostering Exchange Between Practitioners and Academics on Climate Change Adaptation and Loss and Damage Finance 22-23 February 2024, Berlin Project adjust, Climate Analytics and the Institute for Transformations of Human-Environment Systems at Humboldt University Berlinare delightedto invite you to a workshop on justice in finance for climate change adaptation and …

“Local communities say, climate change is creating ‘cascading effects of climate change from which we cannot recover’” At Climate Refugees we believe frontline communities should be at the center of informing decision-making processes. Extreme weather and climate change-related events are disproportionately impacting the world’s poorest and marginalized people. We are not alone in our beliefs, with just about every policy …

The 27th UN climate conference (COP27) reached a key milestone in launching a brand-new loss and damage (L&D) fund and was a critical moment for addressing climate justice issues. This agreement took place after decades of consecutive and effectual advocacy from small island states, least developed countries and civil society in the Global South. The L&D fund will allow vulnerable …

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 …

“When we asked them what had displaced them, they replied with one simple word: Water.” — IDP, Baringo County, Kenya Upon invitation from the United Nations Transitional Committee (TC) on the operationalization of the new funding arrangements for responding to loss and damage, Climate Refugees submitted this case study on climate-driven loss and damage in Kenya to inform TC discussions …

Photo Credit: Nguyen Kiet Originally conceptualized by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in 1991, the policy agenda regarding loss & damage has been characterized by considerable ambiguity, complexity, and controversy as various actors have opined on the normative question: who should be held to account for the losses and damages associated with anthropogenic climate change, and on what …

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 …