Loss and damage

Huq, Saleemul; Roberts, Erin; Fenton, Adrian

doi:10.1038/nclimate2026

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“…The WIM has an Executive Committee (ExCom), with a mandate to explore implementation of approaches to address L&D 8 ; and the science-practice-policy community, including adaptation and disaster risk practitioners, from non-governmental organisations, consultancies, UN agencies, and development banks, are looking for ways to understand and address L&D [9][10][11][12] . There has also been a substantial growth in the number of academic papers referring to L&D [13][14][15][16] (see supplementary figure 1). All of these emerging actors engaging in L&D discussions may have different perspectives on L&D; and certainly several have highlighted the lack of clarity surrounding L&D 13,17 .…”

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A typology of loss and damage perspectives

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Loss and Damage (L&D) has been the subject of contentious debate in international climate policy for several decades. Recently, formal mechanisms on L&D have been established, but arguably through unclear language. This ambiguity is politically important, but researchers and practitioners require clearer understandings of L&D. Here we report on the first in-depth empirical study of actor perspectives, including interviews with 38 key stakeholders in research, practice, and policy. We find points of agreement and also important distinctions in terms of: the relationship between L&D and adaptation, the emphasis on avoiding versus addressing L&D, the relevance of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of justice. A typology of four perspectives is identified, with different implications for research priorities and actions to address L&D. This typology enables improved understanding of existing perspectives and so has potential to facilitate more transparent discussion of the options available to address L&D. prevent, avoid, proactive, reducing and reversing L&D, reducing and minimising, averting and reducing, minimising risks, potential L&D, potential impact, L&D is under adaptation, humanitarian response, unfortunate Risk Management climate risk management, comprehensive climate management, holistic, total risk, risk layering, high level losses, changing risk profile, evolving risk, socioeconomic thresholds, extreme events,

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“…The ''loss and damage'' controversy in recent global climate negotiations, and the adoption of the Warsaw mechanism at the 2013 Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has again brought the North-South cleavage in global climate politics to the forefront (Huq et al, 2013). According to current estimates funding from richer to poorer countries in the order of 50-100 billion Euros per year will be required.…”

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Obtaining public support for North-South climate funding: Evidence from conjoint experiments in donor countries

Gampfer

Bernauer

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2014

Global Environmental Change

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“…At the global level, loss and damage is often conceptualised as the impacts of climate change that are not avoided through mitigation and adaptation efforts Verheyen, 2012). This argument has underpinned calls for greater mitigation ambition, increased funding for adaptation as well as the establishment of Loss and Damage as a third pillar under the UNFCCC (Huq, Roberts, & Fenton, 2013;Kreft, Warner, Harmeling, & Roberts, 2013;. At the local level, loss and damage has been defined as the impacts of climate change that households and communities are not able to adapt to Warner et al ( , 2013a.…”

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Climate change-related loss and damage: translating the global policy agenda for national policy processes

Roberts

Pelling

2016

Climate and Development

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In the wake of the Paris climate conference which inscribes loss and damage as a permanent feature of the global climate regime, this paper examines the relevance of the global Loss and Damage agenda for national climate change policies. Through a structured review of the emerging policy and academic literature two primary challenges are highlighted: first, the difficulty in establishing formal attribution of loss and damage to anthropogenic climate change, and second in determining with clarity the limits to adaptation beyond which loss and damage can be described as unavoidable. In examining these two challenges, we arrive at a framework for national level policy that emphasises the underlying developmental potential of Loss and Damage. In offering this viewpoint, the narrative arc on Loss and Damage is expanded from a technical agenda towards one more attuned to existing policy and mechanisms at the local and national levels. A Comprehensive Risk Management approach is proposed as a practical framing for national and local policies to address loss and damage which could lead to addressing both the underlying and accumulating development failures and risk management capacities that shape loss and damage outcomes. This moves Loss and Damage from a reactive to a proactive responsibility and enables action now -not only once attribution and the limits to adaptation are derived.

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Loss and damage

Cited by 87 publications

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A typology of loss and damage perspectives

A typology of loss and damage perspectives

Obtaining public support for North-South climate funding: Evidence from conjoint experiments in donor countries

Climate change-related loss and damage: translating the global policy agenda for national policy processes

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