COP27 establishes loss and damage fund to respond to human cost of climate change

Wyns, Arthur

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00331-x

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“…With a global commitment to compensate countries in the Global South through loss and damage funds [36] additional financial resources may provide an opportunity to incorporate science-informed adaptation measures into reconstruction and disaster response. While our prototype assessment focused on housing it could be extended with more spatial data to estimate adaptation costs, opportunities, and challenges for additional sectors (e.g.…”

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Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains

Schmitt,

Virgüez,

Ashfaq

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The 2022 Indus floods in Pakistan underscore the urgency of adapting to more frequent and severe natural disasters in a warming world. Post-disaster reconstruction offers a chance to built-in adaptation measures, but identifying feasible and cost-effective adaptation options is challenging, especially in data-scarce regions. Here we employ a high-resolution rapid assessment of flood stages combined with demographic data to identify adaptation opportunities and costs for the Indus floodplains. Under a plausible set of assumptions, we find that rebuilding houses in a flood-proof, elevated manner (‘moving up’) or (temporary) relocation (‘moving over’) could have protected 13%, respectively 16% of people affected during the 2022 floods, while the remaining 70% of people were exposed to shallow water levels that could have been addressed with low-cost adaptation. Implementing these measures during ongoing reconstruction could be an effective adaptation to future floods but will come with substantial costs. Rebuilding in a flood-proofed manner (‘moving up’) alone would already increase costs by 26%–63% ($1.5bn–$3.6bn) compared to estimated reconstruction costs without adaptation ($5.8bn). Additional costs would be incurred by relocation and adaptation of other infrastructure. The absence of local flood stage and socio-economic data creates uncertainty and points to future research avenues. Yet, our prototype approach demonstrates the value of rapid assessments for guiding post-disaster adaptation of livelihoods to future floods.

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Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains

Schmitt,

Virgüez,

Ashfaq

et al. 2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…This manifests in many ways, including trade objections by high-income countries preventing national public health regulations in low- and middle-income countries, 10 and during the pandemic, in vaccine and personal protective equipment stockpiling by high-income countries at the expense of low- and middle-income countries, 11 or in challenges reaching agreement and delivering on loss and damage funds related to global warming. 12 In other words, between-country health inequalities are, in large part, a consequence of between-country power and resource inequalities. However, even if such foundational inequalities between countries were to be addressed, these would still not be sufficient to achieve health equity globally, due to the profound inequalities that exist within countries, in both the global north and the global south.…”

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Global Health Equity Requires Global Equity

et al. 2023

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Many global health challenges are characterized by the inequitable patterning of their health and economic consequences, which are etched along the lines of pre-existing inequalities in resources, power, and opportunity. These links require us to reconsider how we define global health equity, and what we consider as most consequential in its pursuit. In this article, we discuss the extent to which improving underlying global equity is an essential prerequisite to global health equity. We conclude that if we are to improve global health equity, there is a need to focus more on foundational—rather than proximal—causes of ill health and propose ways in which this can be achieved.

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“…New avenues of funding may open up through the loss and damage fund, which was negotiated at the COP27 in Egypt (Masood et al, 2022; Wyns, 2023). Newly available funding could help implement existing evidence‐based policy advice into development practice and climate foreign policy.…”

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Strengthening the science–policy interface in the climate migration field

Hoffmann

Vinke

Šedová

2023

International Migration

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The question of how climatic changes and hazards affect human mobility has increasingly gained prominence in public debates over the past decade. Despite improvements in the scientific understanding of the subject and advancements in policy, major gaps remain in addressing the humanitarian and socio‐economic challenges related to climate migration. In this perspectives article, we argue for a holistic approach and a closer integration of science and policy involving diverse stakeholders in the process of knowledge generation and implementation. We identify five key challenges characteristic for improving the science–policy interface: (i) conflictual political contexts and the securitization of human migration, (ii) simplistic narratives and framing of the subject, (iii) the uneven production and dissemination of knowledge, (iv) limited data and analytical capacities and (v) a selective topical and methodological focus. To address these diverse challenges, there is a need for more bridging initiatives at the science–policy interface that integrate diverse disciplines, approaches and stakeholders. A closer engagement of researchers and policymakers in the form of multi‐stakeholder exchanges, capacity‐building activities, co‐development and co‐implementation processes and integrative scientific assessments can help bridge the gap to support the inclusive generation of knowledge and the development of comprehensive policies.

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COP27 establishes loss and damage fund to respond to human cost of climate change

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Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains

Move up or move over: mapping opportunities for climate adaptation in Pakistan’s Indus plains

Global Health Equity Requires Global Equity

Strengthening the science–policy interface in the climate migration field

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