Bangladesh has been striving for years to shift its narrative from being climate vulnerability to resilience. Over the years, it has managed to build itself as one of the climate-resilient countries, despite the geographical vulnerability, through building efficient early warning systems, community-led disaster management, and women’s leadership in resilience efforts. However, communities in Bangladesh continue to face existential crisis due …

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 …

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 …

In more than thirty years of negotiations, countries have yet to establish a financing mechanism for losses and damages associated with climate change. We outline a new typology of 14 obstruction tactics countries have been used to delay progress on loss and damage finance. These tactics limit the scope of the issue, reduce transparency, manipulate language, and push non-transformative solutions. …

Countries in the Global South have been advocating for funds to cover the losses and damagesthey will face due to climate change for more than three decades. In that same time, countriesin the Global North – the U.S. in particular – have repeatedly prevented those funds frombecoming a reality. In this briefing paper, we detail the history of obstruction to …

Last year, the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) for climate change agreed to establish a loss and damage (L&D) finance facility to support the recovery from loss and damage caused by the increasing impacts of climate change. The decision to establish an L&D fund can be regarded as just a political win; it is not a climate win yet. …

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 …

‘Loss and damage’ is seen as a new paradigm for international climate action, but has long affected the operational realities of institutions that keep responding to climate-induced food system breakdowns. Without stronger systems for climate prediction and protection, escalating humanitarian needs risk crowding out the financial space for loss and damage prevention. Over the past 28 years, negotiations under the …

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 …

CONSTITUTED BODY MEETINGS AND EVENTS Event Language: EnglishRoom: AHH lower conferenceVenue: UN CampusCity: BonnCountry: GermanyOrganiser: UNFCCCSummary of decision points adopted on 8 April 2022  Originally this news was published by UNFCCC website.