Items tagged:
Loss and damage
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New animation shows how climate-related loss and damage is impacting people in Nepal
The fourth of a series, IIED releases a new film depicting how people in the least developed countries are experiencing loss and damage caused by climate change.
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Advancing understanding of disaster displacement in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
Through extensive stakeholder engagement, data collection and analysis, IIED contributed to the understanding of what makes people vulnerable to displacement because of climate change in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, and what mechanisms can help them to cope with that displacement
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How can loss and damage finance reach those enduring climate catastrophe?
As global heating causes loss and damage to escalate rapidly, new and additional large-scale financing is needed to protect lives, livelihoods and ecosystems, especially in the poorest countries and communities. Clara Gallagher and Simon Addison explore some of the ways that different financial instruments might be layered to get the right kinds of finance to the right place at the right time to implement a variety of loss and damage measures
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Layering interventions is necessary to address loss and damage effectively
Loss and damage due to climate change is happening now and will increase as temperatures rise. Governments and communities must act urgently to address the risks vulnerable people face, but there is little agreement on how to do so in practice. As Nora Nisi explains, layering interventions offers a valuable way of taking action in a comprehensive way
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Loss and damage does not happen in a vacuum – it relates to power and politics
Anna Carthy discusses the importance of understanding the history, politics and power dynamics that create vulnerability to loss and damage. Loss and damage is linked to colonial histories and to intersectional marginalisation, and it can be caused by both climate impacts and by climate action
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Loss and damage animation named finalist at Charity Film Awards
IIED’s animation ‘Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the LDCs: Solomon Islands’ is a finalist in the Charity Film Awards. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony in March 2022
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Connecting humanitarians and climate change
IIED worked with Start Network – a global network of over 50 humanitarian agencies from five continents – to understand how humanitarian actors can tackle climate change more effectively
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IIED at CBD COP15
What is CBD COP15? Our key research, commentary, analysis and events from the 2022 global biodiversity conference
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Loss and damage: erosion of Nepal’s life, land and beauty is deep and irreparable
Life-threatening floods from bursting glacial lakes are just one of the many impacts of climate change that are leaving the people of Nepal unable to cope. Guest blogger Shreya K.C. calls on world leaders to replace fake handshakes with concrete action
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Bringing youth’s energy from the streets to the climate negotiating table
Guest blogger Yared Abera shares how he navigated the steep learning curve to becoming a climate negotiator and the valuable guidance he received along the way
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Loss and damage animation chosen for Charity Film Award – and we need your vote!
The IIED animation ‘Untold stories of climate change loss and damage in the LDCs: Solomon Islands’ has been nominated for the Charity Film Awards.
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Tackling loss and damage: who is most vulnerable to disaster displacement?
Drawing on recent research, Simon Addison and Sam Barrett explain why disaster displacement risk assessments must integrate better quality data on the specific vulnerabilities of different people to escalating climate risks
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New solidarity funds could ringfence finance for loss and damage
On Adaptation, Loss and Damage Day at COP26, Clara Gallagher and Saleemul Huq consider how National Solidarity Funds for loss and damage could get new and additional finance to countries experiencing devastating and relentless loss and damage caused by climate change
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Climate-induced migration illustrates loss and damage already being felt by communities
As global warming bites, vulnerable communities are being pushed from their homes by disasters and longer-term pressures, and desperately require financial help
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Tackling loss and damage in countries vulnerable to the effect of the climate crisis: improving evidence and co-generating pathways to impact
IIED is working with least developed countries, Small Island Developing States and representatives of vulnerable communities to develop a vision for practical action to address loss and damage caused by climate change
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Humanitarian action is part of climate response – but must be early and locally led
Humanitarian actors could be key players in the global climate response, especially through their efforts to address climate-induced loss and damage. But their actions must be pre-emptive and locally-led. Anna Carthy and Simon Addison look at a new funding mechanism that helps humanitarians scale up local efforts and proactively address climate risks
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IIED at COP26
Our key research, commentary, analysis and events from the 2021 UN climate summit
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Listen to young people: cultural practices can provide answers to the climate problem
Ahead of this week’s COP26 Youth Summit, Papua New Guinean climate advocate Vinzealhar Nen urges world leaders heading to Glasgow to listen to and learn from climate solutions being championed by young people in members' countries − particularly the small islands states
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Untold stories: climate activism and the brutal realities of loss and damage
People in the least developed countries (LDCs) have done the least to cause the climate crisis. Yet they suffer its worst impacts. This online event saw activists in the Solomon Islands, Rwanda and Sierra Leone bring their unseen stories to life in a series of powerful animations
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COP26 hangs in the balance if G20 fails to show solidarity with climate-vulnerable countries by delivering action
This week, G20 ministers come together for two major meetings. Following commitments they made to climate-vulnerable countries at the Climate and Development Ministerial in March, Alex Scott and Ebony Holland reflect on progress to date and how critical it will be for the G20 to maintain momentum and fill the gaps left by the G7
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Biden’s climate summit needs to show leadership for the most vulnerable – here’s how
As US President Biden hosts a virtual climate leaders summit, Andrew Norton focuses on adaptation, resilience and loss and damage challenges and how the summit can continue the momentum for solutions
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Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation
IIED launches the last of a three-part animation series that recounts the lived experience of climate change loss and damage, as told by Rwandan youth activist Ineza Umuhoza Grace
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Pushed past coping: IIED animation captures destruction of climate change loss and damage in Sierra Leone
IIED launches a new animation that describes the catastrophic impacts of loss and damage caused by climate change in Sierra Leone, as narrated by UN climate negotiator Gabriel Kpaka
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Loss and damage – recognising the costs of climate change: Make Change Happen podcast episode 10
Climate change has devastating impacts on our planet and people. Some impacts are very noticeable, but many go unmentioned. In this episode of Make Change Happen, we acknowledge the untold loss and damage from climate change having devastating effects on culture and communities
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Brutal realities of climate change loss and damage come to life in IIED animations
IIED has launched the first in a series of three animations that depict the deep and personal loss and damage caused by climate change in the least developed countries (LDCs) – stories that, too often, go untold or unheard
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Demanding urgent responses to the loss and damage caused by climate change
IIED and partners are getting the injustice of climate change loss and damage recognised in policy spaces and demanding action is taken to support those people most affected
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Loss and damage from climate change has pushed Sierra Leoneans far beyond their ability to adapt
Over the last 15 years, residents of Freetown, Sierra Leone have witnessed first-hand the escalating trail of destruction left in the wake of floods, sea rises, mudslides, landslides and more
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How climate change losses could open the Solomon Islands’ old wounds
Forced relocation is on the horizon as communities in the Solomon Islands face loss of freshwater and land. Guest blogger Solomon Yeo fears this could spark fresh tensions between ethnic groups – and lead the country to revisit its dark history
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Engulfed by the sea: the loss and damage from climate change
People from the Solomon Islands are experiencing profound loss and damage from climate change every day. Guest blogger Gladys Habu calls on the global community to recognise these losses, and act
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Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
On 9 September 2020, IIED and ICCCAD are hosting a webinar on climate-related loss and damage in the least developed countries. Ineza Umuhoza Grace reports on how climate change is impacting Rwanda
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Loss and damage – research, policy and lived experience in least developed countries
On Tuesday, 8 September, IIED and ICCCAD hosted a webinar featuring least developed countries' national experts sharing their research and lived experience of loss and damage. The discussion aimed to ensure that loss and damage remains a priority issue in the lead up to COP26
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Climate action: let’s be bold in Bonn
As the UN climate change conference kicks off in Bonn on Monday (17 June), Subhi Barakat calls for negotiators to be bolder and braver with an emphasis on action
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Q&A: We need long term actions on climate change
In the first of our interviews with representatives from the Least Developed Country Group ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris (COP21), Tracy Kajumba shares some of the challenges created by climate change in Uganda
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Road to Paris video series: the Least Developed Countries' perspective (episode 4)
Hear from a series of experts as they provide an insight into the perspectives of the Least Developed Countries on key aspects of the UNFCCC process ahead of the UN climate talks in Paris in December 2015
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Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier
Highlighting and assessing the urban impacts of climate change can help cities find a more consistent, multi-level approach to climate adaptation
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Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage
Even the best of efforts to adapt to climate change may not be enough to prevent loss and damage, and that's why the UN climate talks need to agree a mechanism to handle this new issue, says Saleemul Huq.
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A house with many rooms: Addressing loss and damage from climate change
At the climate change negotiations, rich nations should not let their fear of liability delay on action on loss of damage.
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Introduction to our work on climate-resilient development
IIED works with national and local government policymakers and planners, civil society organisations, private sector companies and local communities to design, test and evaluate equitable solutions to the climate emergency in low-income countries
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COP18 Q&A: outcomes of the Doha climate talks
What are the major outcomes from the climate talks and what does it all mean for developing countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change? We spoke with Saleemul Huq, senior fellow with IIED's Climate Change research group, for his analysis.
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COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference
What is happening at the climate negotiations in Doha and what might the developments mean for countries most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change? We spoke with Saleemul Huq, senior fellow with IIED's Climate Change research group, for his analysis on recent developments.
