Over the past few years, as Black Lives Matter has grown into the global movement that it is today, there has been an increasing focus on what it means for white people to be allies; to demand racial justice alongside people of colour. The powerful words of Martin Luther King Jr., who had a lot to say about keeping silent while …
Bangladesh can lead the way in discussing reparations at climate conferences
As Bangladesh assumes the leadership of the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) for the next two years, including at the next Conference of Parties (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021, there is an opportunity for Bangladesh to push for the issue of loss and damage from climate change to be made a central topic for discussion at …
The global negotiations on how to tackle climate change take place in December at the annual Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is hosted in a different continent each year. This year it was the turn of South America, and COP25 was supposed to have been held in Santiago, Chile from …
Conference on Loss and Damage 2019 UNDERSTANDING, MEASURING AND GOVERNING LOSS AND DAMAGE FOR SOCIAL AND ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS DATE AND PLACE Date: Wednesday, 30th October- Friday, 1st November 2019 Place: Lund, Sweden. PARTNERS The conference is hosted by Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies in partnership with the Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) Lund University, Oxford University, Met …
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 …
The recent devastation in Mozambique due to two successive hurricanes (Aida and Kenneth) of unprecedented severity for southern Africa, are a clear indicator that we are now living in a climate changed world. And that the huge loss and damage sustained by the people of Mozambique is due to human-induced climate change and not just natural causes. This means that …
The topic of loss and damage from human-induced climate change has been a highly politically sensitive issue in international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for many years with vulnerable developing countries, including Bangladesh, arguing in its favour and the rich countries arguing against it. In recent years, there have been two breakthroughs in the …
Addressing one of the UN climate talks’ most contentious issues Wildfires burn in North America, hurricanes and cyclones decimate countries in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Least developed countries and the small island states deal with the irreversible loss and damage to their states and communities on a frequent basis. Meanwhile, the Conference of Parties (COP24) is held in Katowice, …
Saleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), discusses the issue of loss and damage. Huq analyses its history in the UNFCCC process, which started in Poland, the latest consensus among developing countries, and the efforts to embed it at COP24.
Loss and damage compensation and climate change litigation are on the horizon to protect the most vulnerable from failing high emitters. Excerpt from interview with Dr Saleemul Huq, Independent University of Bangladesh.
