The social and financial costs of climate impacts, which can no longer be avoided, tend to be summarized under the collective term “loss and damage”. Saleemul Huq, Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development, told Carbon Brief: “The attribution of climate change seems to be a recurring topic of discussion related to loss and damage. But it`s also very difficult to talk about it. » 11 April 2018 Suva Expert Dialogue: Pushing the Conversation on Loss and Damage, Olivia Serdeczny, Linda Siegele, Doreen Stabinsky The Suva Expert Dialogue from 2 to 3 May in Bonn and the technical paper it aims to shed light on are the next important steps to promote collective understanding of loss and damage management approaches, associated financial needs and sources of support. Here`s what you can expect from the two- to two-day meeting. 2. May 2018 How solutions really work – Key issues for the Suva Expert Dialogue on Loss and Damage, Olivia Serdeczny, Inga Menke, Adelle Thomas At the Suva Expert Dialogue in Bonn from 2 to 3 May, ministers and ambassadors from vulnerable countries once again called for support to address climate-related damage. As discussions on possible solutions to loss and damage in developing countries progress over the next two days, it is worth highlighting the key issues that need to be addressed: accountability, feasibility and affordability. With a priority list that covers slow-moving events (for example. B sea level rise), risk management and migration, climate scientists can contribute to policy discussions about loss and damage, James says. However, the chances are not always obvious, as unFCCC calls for evidence can be “written in another language,” she told Carbon Brief: While the concept of loss and damage may have come a long way, the details have not. On the opening day of the Bonn talks this week, the Maldives, on behalf of AOSIS, once again stressed the need not only to address but also to define loss and damage. 26 years after the first loss and damage proposed to aOSIS, this is slow progress in all respects.
“If we want to be prepared, we need to understand how climate change affects the likelihood of extreme weather events. Attribution of climate change is one way to study these changes in probability. Decades ago, as a relatively obscure advocacy by small island states, loss and damage after mitigation and adaptation were now recognized as the third pillar of international climate policy. But turning the concept of loss and damage into something more tangible for countries bearing the brunt of extreme weather or rising seas has proven more difficult. But while it`s easy to see how event attribution could be treated as a motivation to reduce emissions, it`s harder to use it in a context of loss and damage, says Dr Rachel James, a climate modeler specialising in African climate change at the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. She tells Carbon Brief: 20. December 2019 Loss and damage at COP25 – a difficult step in the right direction, Dawn Pierre-Nathoniel, Linda Siegele, Inga Menke The review of the Warsaw International Loss and Damage Mechanism (WIM) carried out at COP25 provided an opportunity for a stronger commitment to action and support, including new and additional funding, capacity-building and technical assistance. Lengthy intensive negotiations and a unified position of the G77 developing countries and China lead to an acceptable outcome. The history of L&D in the context of climate negotiations dates back to 1991, when the Alliance of Small Island States called for a mechanism that would compensate countries affected by sea-level rise. Over time, more and more vulnerable countries have realized that they too are affected by climate change, which is beyond their ability to cope.
The idea of a mechanism that would help them deal with loss and damage gained wider support. The concept of loss and damage made it a decision that emerged from a COP when the work programme on loss and damage was launched at COP16 in 2010, which eventually led to the creation of a body at COP19 in 2013 to specifically address issues related to loss and damage: the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (WIM for short). With the inclusion of Article 8 of the Paris Agreement, loss and damage is now firmly anchored as a thematic pillar under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For a great overview of the process and dynamics of creating wim, see Vanhala & Hestbaek and Calliari. Call on polluters to pay a “climate damage tax”, 16. November 2017, Climate Home At the COP22 summit in Marrakech in 2016, one year after Paris, the Executive Committee of the Warsaw Mechanism adopted a five-year monitoring work plan on loss and damage. When the UNFCCC was drafted in 1991, AOSIS proposed the creation of an international pool of insurance to “compensate the most vulnerable small islands and low-lying coastal developing countries for loss and damage resulting from sea-level rise”. [2] The proposal would determine the amount of each country`s contribution to this pool on the basis of its contribution to global emissions and its relative share in the world`s gross national product, a formula “modelled on the 1963 Brussels Supplementary Convention on Civil Liability in the Field of Nuclear Energy”. This proposal was rejected and, when the UNFCCC was adopted in 1992, it did not contain any reference to loss or damage. [6] An intuitive understanding of loss and damage has been part of international political discussions, at least informally, since its inception. In 1991, while the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was being developed, the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) – a negotiating group of countries facing some of the worst risks of climate change – highlighted the need to address loss and damage to vulnerable countries. The group proposed to set up an international insurance pool that could, for example, compensate victims of the projected sea level rise.
23 August 2017 Island states need better data to cope with climate losses, Dr. Adelle Thomas Loss and damage – an emerging issue in climate negotiations – is not only a future threat to highly vulnerable small island developing states (SIDS): it is happening now. This blog describes the existing methods used by SIDS to assess and manage loss and damage, as described in a recent study that included interviews with negotiators from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) and analysed the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) of AOSIS member countries. Here is the very first mention of “loss and damage” in a UNFCCC document – submitted by @AOSISChair in 1991 #SB46 t.co/pLdRZZ5R3K pic.twitter.com/AJ0OnsuLZN Another topic that was unpopular with many was that the Warsaw Mechanism also included loss and damage as a subcategory of adaptation rather than as a separate category. This was seen as symbolically important for many countries, arguing that loss and damage justified recognition as the “third pillar” of the UNFCCC. 27 November 2019 Towards a sound scientific basis: Loss and damage in IPCC special reports on land and oceans and the cryosphere by Emily Theokritoff, Claire Fyson, Adelle Thomas, Olivia Serdeczny, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner This briefing note, which examines how issues relating to loss and damage are particularly important for small island developing States and least developed countries, have gained prominence in recent IPCC special reports. Reports agree that the effects of climate change are evident at current levels of warming. Even some extreme events, such as marine heat waves, are almost entirely due to climate change and provide a solid basis for the discourse on loss and damage. Loss and Damage: Who Pays for the Impacts of the Heated Earth?, Climate Home, December 3, 2019 Explanation: Dealing with the “Loss and Damage” Caused by Climate Change This Carbon Brief article provides a comprehensive overview of the most important terms of loss and loss negotiations.
Areas of action on loss and damage in the Paris Agreement. Source: United Nations Paris Agreement 17 December 2018 Progress on loss and damage in Katowice, Olivia Serdeczny, Dawn Pierre-Nathoniel, Linda Siegele Developing countries have called for the inclusion of loss and damage in the transparency framework and the global balance sheet. . . .