Arrested development: the late and inequitable integration of loss and damage finance into the UNFCCC

Ferreira, Patrícia Galvão

doi:10.4337/9781788974028.00014

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“…But the WIM has been less successful in identifying sources of international public funds for subsidizing those insurance pools, compensation funds for rebuilding or reconstruction costs, partly because these are more politically sensitive issues. 47 Climate finance and financial responsibility for climate impacts has always been an underlying tension and area of significant disagreement in the loss and damage negotiations.…”

Section: The Wim and Articlementioning

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The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective

Benjamin,

Thomas

2023

Rev Euro Comp Intl Enviro

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Historically, climate change vulnerability and loss and damage have been conceptualized as a narrow and linear pathway—with geographic and socioeconomic vulnerability leading to increasing incidents of loss and damage. However, this conceptualization falls short of considering how evolving and cumulative loss and damage affects the stability and economic security of island nations, contributes to development rollbacks and increases vulnerability to future climate impacts. We highlight the limitations of how relationships between vulnerability, loss and damage and development have been understood and applied by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and consequently in the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to address these multi‐scalar, systemic and cumulative impacts. Other approaches consider relationships between climate change, vulnerability and larger developmental impacts, including the concept of a multidimensional vulnerability index (MVI). But experiences with MVI in other international forums have not been positive and may in fact put more pressure on developing countries to compete for limited financial resources. Introducing MVI into the UNFCCC system, may, therefore, be detrimental to Small Island Developing States and marginalize other developing countries. Instead, more pressure should be placed on developed countries to broaden their understanding of loss and damage and make more climate finance available to developing countries that are bearing the brunt of climate impacts. There may now be greater opportunity within the UNFCCC framework to address these cyclical and systemic aspects of loss and damage with new and enhanced financial arrangements for loss and damage, as well as the establishment of a loss and damage fund. We argue that these new institutional developments should include broader and cyclical concepts of loss and damage.

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The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective

Benjamin,

Thomas

2023

Rev Euro Comp Intl Enviro

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Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations

Falzon,

Shaia,

Roberts

et al. 2023

Global Environmental Politics

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In 1991, in meetings constructing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the small island state of Vanuatu introduced a proposal requiring wealthy countries to pay for damages related to sea level rise. More than thirty years later, countries finally agreed to establish a financing mechanism for loss and damage associated with climate change. Scholars have observed the slow progress on loss and damage finance, but what tactics did countries use to obstruct negotiations? We answer this question using data from primary and secondary sources, observations at negotiations, and key informant interviews. Our analysis details four periods of obstruction and outlines a typology of fourteen tactics countries have used to delay progress. These tactics limited the issue’s scope, reduced transparency, manipulated language, and advanced nontransformative solutions. These findings contribute to the study of obstructionism in climate governance and can help loss and damage advocates better anticipate and respond to obstruction.

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Loss and Damage of Can tho Agriculture in Vietnam Due to Climate Change

Nguyen¹

2023

IJAAP

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This research used Agromeshell model combines with spatial distribution and analysis in GIS to estimate loss and damage in Can Tho agriculture, which is represented by rice productivity and cultivating land. The result indicated that Thoi Lai county has the highest loss/damage risking, gains 1448.16 billion VND in 2030 year and 1975.62 billion VND in 2050 year. Binh Thuy has the lowest loss/damage risking with 15.39 billion VND in 2050 and Vinh Thanh has the least loss/damage value in 2030 year with 9.01 billion VND by rising sea level. Thoi Lai has the highest loss/damage risking in 2050 year with 25.81 billion VND; Vinh Thanh county has the highest loss/damage risking in 2030 year with 18.35 billion VND by precipitation. Co Do County has the highest loss/damage risking in 2030 and 2050 year with 57.82 billion VND and 314.32 billion VND by temperature. Ninh Kieu county has the least loss/damage value in 2030 and 2050 year by affecting of precipitation as well as temperature in climate change. Therefore, this article revealed estimation of loss and damage risking in applying amalgamation of agromeshell model and GIS.

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Arrested development: the late and inequitable integration of loss and damage finance into the UNFCCC

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The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective

The unvirtuous cycle of loss and damage: Addressing systemic impacts of climate change in small islands from a vulnerability perspective

Tactical Opposition: Obstructing Loss and Damage Finance in the United Nations Climate Negotiations

Loss and Damage of Can tho Agriculture in Vietnam Due to Climate Change

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