Climate Tribune | October 2023 Articles in the series FOREWORD ADAPTATION VULNERABILITY INDEX FINANCING VANUATU AND BEYOND LOSS AND DAMAGE PARTNERSHIPS NATIONAL AND LOCAL STORIES
Climate-induced Displacement: Loss and Damage in Bangladesh
As climate change exacerbates displacement and loss in Bangladesh, Saleemul Huq and Lutfor Rahman call for a collaborative global effort to address loss and damage funding. The upcoming COP28 in Dubai may be a game changer. The world has entered a new era of climate change reality. It is not a theoretical concept or a distant future possibility anymore, but …
The Climate Action Summit in New York has failed to deliver
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guitterez, has been holding an annual Climate Action Summit on the margins of the UN General Assembly in September each year. He invites world leaders to come and share what they are doing to tackle climate change, the biggest human-induced global crisis. Over the years, his language to describe the situation has become …
What can the Loss and Damage Facility learn from the Green Climate Fund?
Summary: This analysis draws from research on the decision-making and approval process in the GCF to explore how institutional arrangements and funding guidance shape the funding process and outcomes for the L&D facility. Insights are based on an analysis of GCF board meeting deliberations between 2016 and 2021 during which the board discussed 181 proposals, survey responses from 27 Accredited …
Surviving the aftermath of heavy snowfall in Merak, Bhutan: A story of tackling Loss and Damage
In the Merak community of Bhutan, we meet Ms. Pema Wangmo, who despite facing challenges in her marriage and changing environmental circumstances from a young age, demonstrated exceptional resilience and determination to adapt to climate change. Ms. Wangmo comes from the Brokpa community, an indigenous group residing in the Merak Sakteng Villages within the Trashigang District of Bhutan. The village …
Advancing the Glasgow Dialogue on funding to address Loss and Damage
One of the outcomes of the COP26 held in United Kingdom’s Glasgow in November, 2021 was a decision to hold a series of three annual Glasgow Dialogues on funding to address Loss and Damage, with each dialogue to be held in Bonn at the annual pre-COP event. I just attended the second annual Glasgow Dialogue, which was held over the …
Climate Tribune | April 2023
Climate Tribune | April 2023 Articles in this series Scopes for aligning LLA with the indigenous customary laws in Chittagong Hill Tracts by Savio Rousseau Rozario & Hla Thoaiching Marma On ‘monitoring locally-led adaptation and resilience’ by Sarah Farheen Khan Starting with the first mile to support effective early warning systems at scale by Shahnawaz Whara & Dr Mirianna Budimir …
Loss and damage finance should apply to biodiversity loss
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 …
Understanding the concepts of adaptation and loss and damage
A major prediction has come out of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) this week, which says the world will almost certainly cross the threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global atmospheric temperature rise within the next five years or so. This confirms that the world has already entered the era of losses and damages attributable to human-induced climate change and …
CLIMATE INDUCED DISPLACEMENT IN BANGLADESH THROUGH THE LENS OF ‘LOSS AND DAMAGE’
This article looks at the economic and non-economic ‘‘loss and damage’ (L&D) of communities in Bangladesh experiencing climate induced displacement. Highlighting the potential of the innovative Climate Resilient Migrant Friendly Towns project, developed by ICCCAD, to provide durable solutions to climate IDPs, the authors make the case that L&D funding should prioritize people displaced by climate and the host communities …
