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Rising tide of loss and damage advances cause in U.N. climate deal

By ICCCAD
September 6, 2015
in :  Loss and Damage
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(This article was originally posted by Thomson Reuters Foundation here) As the latest round of U.N. climate talks drew to a close in Bonn on Friday, the tiny island state of Dominica was beginning a second day of national mourning for more than 30 people killed a week ago by a tropical storm, and some 35 reported missing. Margareta Wahlström, head of …

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Hurricane Katrina to Cyclone Pam: whose losses count more?

By ICCCAD
March 24, 2015
in :  Blog, Loss and Damage
Comments Off on Hurricane Katrina to Cyclone Pam: whose losses count more?
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(This article has originally published on rtcc.org and can be found here) This year marked the tenth anniversary of hurricane Katrina that had devastating consequences on New Orleans and the entire Gulf coast of the United States. The event killed at least 986, displaced up to 600,000 for over a month, and caused an estimated USD $135 billion in damages. Seven …

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Exclusion of ‘loss and damage’ would make Paris deal useless

By ICCCAD
February 15, 2015
in :  Loss and Damage
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(This article has been originally published on rtcc.org, available here) The UN’s climate body has kicked off its year of intensive work with a meeting this week in Geneva. The process will culminate in Paris in December, where world leaders hope to sign off a new agreement that will deal with all elements of global warming. The aim of this …

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Big oil must pay for climate change harm to world’s poorest

By ICCCAD
December 7, 2014
in :  Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Loss and Damage
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(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here) Typhoon-hit Filipinos are paying with their lives for climate change. A levy on fossil fuels could help protect them The residents of the Philippines region of Tacloban know what loss and damage from climate change looks like.  This weekend, this exact same region is now bracing for super typhoon Hagupit, due to hit …

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2014 Resilience Academy: Participant Pledges

By ICCCAD
December 3, 2014
in :  Loss and Damage, News, Resilience Academy, Workshops
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The Resilience Academy was held in Frauenwörth Abbey on the Fraueninsel on Lake Chiemsee earlier this year. Organised by the Munich Re Foundation, the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and ICCCAD, applications for the Resilience Academies run every two years with participants meeting the first year in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the second year in Germany. All the participants …

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Loss and damage: a guide for the confused

By ICCCAD
October 21, 2014
in :  Dr Saleemul Huq Media, Loss and Damage
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(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here). What is loss and damage? How does it work? And why do poor countries care so much? For many people this issue of ‘loss and damage’ seems to have come out of the blue and is still mired in confusion.  At the nineteenth Conference of Parties (COP19) of the United Nations …

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Loss and Damage in Khulna: A First Glance

By ICCCAD
July 24, 2014
in :  Blog, Loss and Damage, Visiting Researchers
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I thought the field trip would be nice escape from my routine in Dhaka but I never imagined it would become an inspiration to my work on loss and damage. More often than not, loss and damage is perceived as a calculation of monetary impacts following an extreme event, and more controversially as a method of compensation to developing countries. …

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Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage Workshop

By ICCCAD
July 1, 2014
in :  Loss and Damage
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The one-day workshop will be hosted by the Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage and invites organizations conducting research or interested in conducting research on loss and damage. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the fourth annual Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum that will be held in Kuala Lumpur from 1-3 October 2014 (participants can register to …

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The Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage

By ICCCAD
March 13, 2014
in :  Loss and Damage
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Loss and damage encompasses a wide range of issues varying from the economic loss of crops due to variable rainfall patterns to the cultural losses that may occur from the relocation of communities due to permanent sea level rise or extreme weather events. While some of these impacts are avoidable, others are not and therefore efforts such as mitigation and …

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Loss & Damage: What’s New

By ICCCAD
November 30, 2013
in :  Loss and Damage
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In the past few months ICCCAD has participated in numerous international meetings and workshops regarding Loss and Damage. Most of these meetings were focused on enhancing knowledge on the subject of Loss and Damage both regionally and globally. The Asia Pacific Network (APN) organized a three-day workshop on “Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Loss and Damage” on 21-23 …

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