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October 2019
ExCom WIM 10th Meeting – Bonn
The tenth meeting of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage associated with climate change impacts will convene in Bonn, Germany. Established to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, the WIM promotes the implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts through: enhancing knowledge and understanding of comprehensive risk management approaches to address loss and damage; strengthening dialogue, coordination, coherence…
Find out more »Conference on Loss and Damage 2019
While the proliferation of new papers and initiatives relating to L&D is promising, many challenges remain for the scientific and policy communities. These include how L&D from climate change should be conceptualised, how to measure and quantify existing L&D and predict future L&D, and what governance arrangements are most appropriate for different contexts. For example, which approaches to L&D from climate-related events can best account for both economic as well as non-economic impacts, where increasing evidence suggest the latter can…
Find out more »December 2019
COP 25 – Chile/Madrid
Conference of the Parties - Santiago Climate Change Conference 2019 The United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC) is the international response to climate change. . It is a treaty that establishes the basic obligations of the 196 Parties (States) plus the European Union to combat climate change. It was signed at the Earth Summit in 1992 and came into force in 1994. Chile joined that year. The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the supreme decision-making body of the Convention. The…
Find out more »March 2020
EXCOM WIM 11TH MEETING – BONN
The Eleventh Meeting Of The Executive Committee (ExCom) Of The Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage associated with climate change impacts will take place in Bonn, Germany...
Find out more »June 2020
June Momentum for Climate Change
In line with its COVID-19 response, the UNFCCC secretariat is currently not convening any physical meetings. But the work in 2020 remains critical for making progress on climate change and, as the Executive Secretary has outlined, is not in any form on hold. While the subsidiary body sessions (SB 52) have been postponed to 4–12 October 2020, arrangements for continuing work through virtual meetings have been put in place. From 1 to 10 June 2020, a series of online events…
Find out more »September 2020
Adaptation Futures 2020 – postponed
The Energy and Resources Institute will co-host the Adaptation Futures 2020 with the World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP) in Delhi from 28 September – 1 October, 2020. It is the sixth in the Adaptation Futures international conference series on global adaptation and the first to be held in Asia. Adaptation Futures is the flagship event of the World Adaptation Science Program, which is one of the four components of World Climate Programme (WCP) based on the World Meteorological Organisation Congress…
Find out more »October 2020
Bonn Climate Change Conference – Postponed
Please note the SB 52 conference, scheduled to take place in October 2020, has been postponed to 2021. The new dates are to be confirmed
Find out more »ExCom WIM 12th meeting – online
The Twelfth Meeting of the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the Warsaw International Mechanism (WIM) for Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change Impacts will convene online, sue to the current Covid-19 emergency. Established to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, the WIM promotes the implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts through: enhancing knowledge and understanding of comprehensive risk management approaches to address loss and damage;…
Find out more »November 2020
Anchoring Loss and Damage in Enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
Very few of the original NDCs submitted in 2015 included loss and damage. The countries that did include L&D were those that were the most vulnerable to climate impacts such as small island developing states from sea level rise and African countries facing increasing drought. In 2020 the majority of the NDCs are expected to be updated to capture increased ambition in preparation for COP26. As part of this process and to make the NDCs more inclusive loss and damage…
Find out more »November 2021
INQUIMUS 2020: Transformational risk management and Loss & Damage
Climate change is accelerating and in combination with other drivers (exposure, vulnerability) is increasingly turning risks more dynamic (i.e. harder to assess with standard approaches). There is first evidence of related impacts breaching physical and social adaptation limits, highlighting the need for tackling ‘residual climate-related risks’. Residual risks being defined as potential negative impacts after all feasible mitigation and adaptation measures have been implemented. Identifying policy solutions for dealing with risks “beyond adaptation” – referred to as Loss and Damage…
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