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Projects, publications, news, events, insights and articles about work on loss and damage from climate impacts – which includes damage to buildings and infrastructure, destroyed crops and loss of livestock to death, damage to health, destruction of crucial ecosystems, and loss of cultural heritage and indigenous knowledge.

A builder labours in the sun in India. Outdoor workers lose weeks of work every year due to extreme heat

Extreme heat costing Indian workers billions in lost wages

20 July 2026

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Too hot to work, too poor to rest

20 July 2026

Climate-resilient water infrastructure in Bubaque, Guinea-Bissau.

LDCs’ experiences in transparency reporting, part 2: loss and damage

Event on 29 July 2026

Tow people are in a field, picking crops. They are both wearing green t-shirts.

LDCs’ experiences in transparency reporting, part 1: adaptation

Event on 22 July 2026

Older man standing in a middle of a busy street in Dhaka, looking straight at the camera. He is wearing a grey t-shirt and a red scarf on his head, and holding his motorcycle.

Too hot to work, too poor to rest

Event on 20 July 2026

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Tracking household resilience trajectories using the RISE resilience ladder

17 June 2026

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Food security in a warming world: who is at risk, why and what comes next?

23 March 2026

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Brazil readiness assessment: delivering anticipatory social protection

14 May 2026

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Animations show loss and damage of climate impacts

Animation of a woman and a child walking side by side

Brutal realities of climate change loss and damage come to life in IIED animations

01 March 2021

Animation of a woman picking vegetables

Pushed past coping: IIED animation captures destruction of climate change loss and damage in Sierra Leone

15 March 2021

Animation of a two people with bags in front of a building

Youth initiatives, key to tackling climate change loss and damage in Rwanda as captured in IIED’s latest animation

31 March 2021

Animation of a man walking in flood water carrying a goat, and a cow

New animation shows how climate-related loss and damage is impacting people in Nepal

22 September 2022

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Flood-induced economic loss and damage to the textile industry in Surat City, India

Publication, 01 September 2015

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Pocket guide to loss and damage under the UNFCCC

Publication, 01 March 2018

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Loss and damage in the Paris Agreement’s global stocktake

Publication, 01 November 2018

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Time to redress the globally unjust cost of climate change

Publication, 01 September 2019

A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.

Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports

Insight, 03 September 2020

Stilt houses tower above water.

Loss and damage – research, policy and lived experience in least developed countries

Event on 08 September 2020

Three people gather to discuss a document one of them is holding in his hand

Climate action: let’s be bold in Bonn

Insight, 14 June 2019

A father and son record measurements from a rain gauge on their farm in Western Uganda. Changes in rainfall patterns could significantly impact rural populations (Photo: J. Recha/CCAFS, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Q&A: We need long term actions on climate change

Article, 24 November 2015

Saleemul Huq is interviewed as part of the Road to Paris video series (Image: IIED)

Road to Paris video series: the Least Developed Countries' perspective (episode 4)

Article, 06 November 2015

Informal settlements such as this one in Durban, South Africa, are adversely affected by climate-related impacts (Photo: David Dodman)

Climate-related 'loss and damage' in cities: exploring a new urban frontier

Insight, 23 October 2014

Typhoon Haiyan approaching the Philippines on 7 November 2013. Credit: NASA

Typhoon Haiyan shows why COP19 must deliver on loss and damage

Insight, 13 November 2013

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A house with many rooms: Addressing loss and damage from climate change

Insight, 04 September 2013

Farmers carry bottled water to pour on a field of onion crops

Introduction to our work on climate-resilient development

Article

Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator

COP18 Q&A: outcomes of the Doha climate talks

Article, 12 December 2012

Climate protestors in Doha. Photo: adopt a negotiator

COP18 Q&A: Latest from the Doha climate change conference

Article, 06 December 2012

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