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Home Tag Archives: Loss and Damage

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The who’s and how’s of allocating loss and damage funds

By ICCCAD
2 weeks ago
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
131

During the negotiations on funding for loss and damage in COP27 in Egypt last November, representatives of developed countries had a lot of reservations about such a proposal. My answer to them was that, while their questions were quite legitimate, they would only get answers after we received a political commitment from their leaders to establish the funding mechanism in …

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Non-economic loss and damage: closing the knowledge gap

By Web editor
2 weeks ago
in :  Policy Brief, Publications
189

Climate-related loss and damage is escalating, with many countries experiencing new forms of climate impact, of increasing intensity. The focus until now has been on calculating the economic repercussions of climate risk. Its wider impacts and resulting hidden costs of climate change — such as loss of cultural heritage — are less understood and harder to quantify. This knowledge gap …

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Loss & Damage Finance

By ICCCAD
3 weeks ago
in :  Infographic, Publications
589

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 …

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The case for a values-based understanding of loss and damage

By ICCCAD
3 weeks ago
in :  Blog, VR blog
1,433

  The loss and damage conversation largely centres around the economics of climate impacts. Losses and damages which are difficult to value on a monetary scale are termed ‘non-economic losses and damages’, often left out of the equation, and often misunderstood. Moreover, there is a limited appreciation of the connections between what is deemed economic and non-economic. This all leads …

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SALEEMUL HUQ: Climate revolutionary

By ICCCAD
December 14, 2022
in :  Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Publications
528

This climate researcher from Bangladesh helped to force wealthy countries to pay for the losses and damages from climate change. In the final hours before the close of last month’s United Nations climate conference in Egypt, exhausted delegates slumped on sofas outside the formal meeting rooms. But not Saleemul Huq, who was sitting upright, rapidly checking messages on his phone. …

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ALL ACT now! Progressing locally led action on loss and damage

By ICCCAD
December 13, 2022
in :  Briefing paper, Publications
284

Countries and communities are exposed to increasingly harmful effects of climate change, leading to loss and damage. These concerns must be urgently addressed, especially in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS). After decades of lobbying by LDCs, SIDS and others, the world has woken up to this situation, and negotiators at the 27th United Nations Climate …

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Loss and Damage fund established at COP27: what happens next?

By ICCCAD
November 29, 2022
in :  Blog, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
2,290

Saleemul Huq, one of the most persistent long-term advocates of a ‘loss and damage’ fund on climate change, explores the origins and potential of the breakthrough at the recent COP. For thirty years the vulnerable developing countries led by the small island states had been demanding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) the creation of a fund …

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The story behind the loss and damage fund at COP27

By ICCCAD
November 23, 2022
in :  Daily Star Article, Dr Saleemul Huq Media
379

COP27 ended a day overtime on November 20 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt with the historic achievement of a new fund for addressing loss and damage in vulnerable developing countries. Today, I want to tell the story of how this was achieved. The demand for rich countries to shoulder their responsibility for historic pollution – which has raised the global temperature …

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COP27: A historic shift towards setting-up a loss and damage financial structure

By Web editor
November 21, 2022
in :  News, Newspaper and magazine articles
135

COP27 process represents a historic moment for loss and damage (L&D) since this is the first time the issue was adopted into the agenda and approved in the same year and am not sure if this has ever been the case within any UN negotiating process, said Saber H Chowdhury, president of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on the Ministry of …

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COP27: Focus shift towards setting up Loss and Damage Financial Structure

Little was done to address the causes of global warming

By Web editor
November 21, 2022
in :  Dhaka Tribune Articles, News, Newspaper and magazine articles
136

The UN climate talks COP27 closed in Egypt on Saturday started to address the symptoms of the climate crisis in a breakthrough decision for the most vulnerable. A historic progress was made with a commitment to set up for a financial support structure for the most vulnerable to deal with “Loss and Damage” caused by the impact of the climate …

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