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Does climate finance enhance mitigation ambitions of recipient countries?
Abstract International public climate finance is an important catalyst for curbing growing emissions from developing countries and enabling them to adapt to the impacts of climate change. Developing countries consider the fulfillment of their Paris Agreement emission reduction pledges to be conditional on receiving climate finance. Prior studies have hypothesized that increasing financial support to developing countries will likely increase their climate ambitions. With …
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 …
Operationalizing the Loss and Damage Fund: Learning from the Intended Beneficiaries
The 27th UN climate conference (COP27) reached a key milestone in launching a brand-new loss and damage (L&D) fund and was a critical moment for addressing climate justice issues. This agreement took place after decades of consecutive and effectual advocacy from small island states, least developed countries and civil society in the Global South. The L&D fund will allow vulnerable …
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 …
Scaling up locally led adaptation in Bangladesh: three action areas
Although highly climate vulnerable, Bangladesh in South Asia is known as a pioneer of climate change adaptation. Recent national policies have recognised the vital importance of community-based and locally led adaptation (LLA). Where LLA interventions have been used by international and national nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), they have proven to be both effective and widely accepted by local communities. Yet major …
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 …
New initiative from three renown NGOs: International Climate Solidarity Levies
Three renown non-governmental organizations, ICCCAD, the Innovative Finance Foundation, and Oxford Climate Policy, have joined forces to propose the use of “International Climate Solidarity Levies”. Their initiative demonstrates how levies can be developed to mobilize funding for the new Loss & Damage Response Fund. With climate change causing loss and damage to societies around the world, the Loss and Damage …
Annual Report – 2022
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‘We are not getting the support we need to lead a better life’: Communities on the front lines of climate change don’t have a say in the help they receive
VIENNA, 5 April 2023 – People on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh see the assistance they receive as unfair, insufficient and feel responders don’t listen to their views, reveals research released by Ground Truth Solutions, the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The report surveys 2,300 citizens in three areas …
