The Loss and Damage Collaboration

??? Japan’s ???? additional contribution of USD 5 million to the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), on top of the initial USD 10 million it had pledged at #COP28, on 17 March 2025, brings the Fund's total to USD 765.59 million. ???A figure that still pales in comparison to the estimated USD 395 billion ?? needed in 2025 to support communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis. The actual amount contributed to date totals just USD 370.20 million—less than half of what was pledged. ?? ?? Wealthy, high-emission countries ?? continue to dodge their legal and moral duty to pay for the harm they have caused. This injustice must end. It’s time to just #FillTheFund!

??NEW SUBMISSION: Responding to the call for input by the Presidencies of the sixth and seventh sessions of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the #ParisAgreement, on the development of the “Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T” (Roadmap), we have just sent a submission calling for #LossAndDamage finance ?? to be a major focus of the Roadmap. ??Read it here: https://lnkd.in/ebnDvFVx ??Under each of the guiding questions developed by the Presidencies, we detail our expectations for how #LossAndDamage should be included in the Roadmap, and how the Roadmap can be leveraged as a political space ??? to address the failure of the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) to deliver #LossAndDamage finance at the scale of the needs of developing countries. ?????? ??This submission also aims to clearly define actionable steps ?? and measurable outcomes ?? for the Roadmap, ensuring robust accountability mechanisms and transparent tracking ??of progress towards achieving the at least 1.3 trillion USD and 300 billion USD annual goals of the #NCQG by 2035. ??See the call for input here: https://lnkd.in/e_kixswU ??Find the official webpage for the Roadmap here: https://lnkd.in/eMxJXRvF ??See the submissions to the call here (last updated 19th March): https://lnkd.in/euHSpUcH [Liane Schalatek, Chiara Liguori, Erin Roberts, Nushrat Rahman Chowdhury, Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), Fatemeh Bakhtiari]

???Thrilled to share a new Guiding Framework and Toolkit on integrating human mobility and rural livelihood linkages into National Adaptation Plans (#NAPs) and Nationally Determined Contributions (#NDCs), jointly developed by FAO and United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS). ?? The?Guiding framework?presents an overarching approach, with values and actions for driving inclusive, transformative climate action. ?? The accompanying?Toolkit introduces 9 tools for policymakers and practitioners involved in #NAP and #NDC processes and promotes coordination and coherence between relevant sectoral policies on climate, environment, rural development, agriculture, and human mobility. The Guiding Framework and Toolkit can support countries with: ??Addressing vulnerabilities in climate-affected rural areas. ??Addressing losses and damages in the context of rural livelihoods and climate mobility. ??Harnessing migration and mobility for climate action. How? Learn more here: ???Guiding Framework: https://bit.ly/3FkKhsA ???Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3Fdz1OP ?? Repost: Originally shared by Ann-Christine Link. Lucy Szaboova, Erin Roberts, Anna Maria Cárcamo, Kees van der Geest, Giorgia Prati, PhD, Researching Internal Displacement, Platform on Disaster Displacement, IOM - UN Migration, Alice Baillat, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Jocelyn Perry

??USEFUL INFO: The fourth Advisory Board meeting (AB4) of the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage (SNLD) will take place from 15 to 17 April 2025, with a members-only informal meeting on 14 April 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland ????. ? The deadline for registration is the 27th of March. ? ??Find AB4 webpage here: https://lnkd.in/eNypV5kv ??Observer Registration: ??? Interested representatives are invited to register as an in-person or virtual observer to the meeting using this registration form below. The deadline for registering as an observer for the meeting (both in-person and virtual) is Thursday, 27 March 2025. ??Register here: https://lnkd.in/esPnJuQf ??Observer Notifications: Find all of the observer notifications below.?? ??For Parties and observer States: https://lnkd.in/eXpsAVZu ???? For United Nations and Intergovernmental organizations: https://lnkd.in/eq4hfcur ?For Non-governmental organizations: https://lnkd.in/eYAM8Psy ??What do we expect from AB4? ??We have articulated our full expectations for the #SantiagoNetwork in 2025 in this excellent blog: https://lnkd.in/eXDmd43m ??We will also be sharing key messages ahead of the meeting! [Santiago network, Carolina FUENTES CASTELLANOS, UNOPS, UNDP, Platform on Disaster Displacement, Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, Heidi White, Samuel Chijioke Okorie (MBA), Tetet Nera-Lauron, Harjeet Singh, Hyacinthe Niyitegeka, Andrea Carmen, Alpha Oumar Kaloga, GNDR, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Researching Internal Displacement]

??USEFUL INFO: The first annual High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Coordination and Complementarity, co-convened by the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) and the United Nations Secretary-General will take place on the 23rd of April on the margins of the The World Bank / International Monetary Fund Spring meetings in Washington D.C. ??Here is what we know so far about the HLD and what we expect! ?? ??What do we know about the HLD? ??The latest version of the concept note for the HLD (dated 05/12/2024) was shared during the fourth meeting of the Board of the Fund in Manila in the Philippines. Find it here: https://lnkd.in/eeWiUXeh ??It shares the objectives of the High-Level Dialogue, which include identifying priority gaps and new opportunities for cooperation, coordination and complementarity on #LossAndDamage response, and very importantly, to develop recommendations on scaling up or enhancing existing as well as initiating new funding arrangements for responding to loss and damage. ???The HLD will consist of no more than 30 high-level representatives of entities engaged in responding to loss and damage that form part of the new funding arrangements including*: 1?? The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage; 2?? The World Bank and regional development banks; 3?? The International Monetary Fund; 4?? Relevant United Nations agencies and other intergovernmental organizations as well as relevant regional, international, bilateral and multilateral organizations; 5?? Relevant multilateral climate funds, such as the Adaptation Fund, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Global Environment Facility and the Green Climate Fund; 6?? The IOM - UN Migration; 7?? The Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage; 8?? The Santiago network for Loss and Damage; and; 9?? Civil society, Indigenous Peoples and the philanthropic sector, as well as individual experts on loss and damage chosen on the basis of their expertise and their representation of different regions and perspectives. *As outlined in the governing instrument of the Fund. See paragraph 14 here: https://lnkd.in/e2zX6CWe??? ??What will be the outcome of the HLD? ??The Board of the Fund will report on the dialogue through its annual report to the COP and CMA and will include information on actions to implement the recommendations arising from the dialogue, as well as recommendations on the funding arrangements. [Continues in the next comment] [ Jean-Christophe Donnellier, Ibrahima Cheikh DIONG, COP29 Azerbaijan, COP28 UAE, COP27 - UN Climate Change Conference, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), Harjeet Singh, Liane Schalatek, Lien Vandamme, Loss and Damage Youth Coalition, YOUNGO]

?? ?????? ???????????? ?????? ?????????????? ???????????????????????????? ???????? ????????! A German court will examine whether fossil fuel companies can be held liable for the global harms they knowingly caused through their contributions to climate change. ???? ???????? ???????? ???????? —I’ll report in real-time from the courtroom on Bluesky and Twitter, as no webcast will be available. Follow the hearings live: #SaulvsRWE #ClimateLitigation #KlimaKlage. ?? ?????? ????????: On March 17 & 19, the Regional Court of Hamm will hold public hearings to hear arguments from both parties and review relevant science. This marks 10 years since Saúl Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer, sued Germany’s largest electricity producer, RWE. His community in Huaraz faces a catastrophic flood risk due to glacial melt exacerbated by climate change. Saúl demands that RWE contribute to the cost of protecting his hometown—in proportion to its role in causing the crisis. ?? ?????? ?????????? ??????????: While German law lacks specific climate liability provisions, the Civil Code’s “neighborhood section” offers a potential path to accountability: “???? ????? ????????????????? ???? ???????????????????? ??????? ???? ?????????? ????????? ??????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????????????? ???? ????????????????????, ????? ?????????? ?????? ?????????????? ????? ?????????????????? ???? ???????????? ????? ????????????????????????. ???? ????????????? ?????????????????????????? ?????? ???? ???? ????????????, ????? ?????????? ?????? ???????? ?? ????????????????????? ????????????????????.” The Court has already acknowledged that, due to the global nature of climate harm, this law could tentatively apply to a German company’s impact as far as in the Andes. ?? ?????? ???????? ??????????????: The Court must decide whether polluters can be held legally accountable for the climate damage they helped create. If the Court rules that polluters can, on principle, be held liable under tort law, this would set an influential precedent that could inform cases across the world. In fact, there are at the moment 43 pending cases demanding financial redress for climate harm. ??? ???????? ?????? has driven accountability before—from Big Tobacco to asbestos. It’s only a matter of time before fossil fuel companies face the same reckoning. Saul vs. RWE could be the case that accelerates this shift. ?? ?? ???? ?????????????? ???? ??????: Help spread the word! Below are links to key articles—share them widely. If investors start seeing climate liability as a real risk, they may divest from the very industry driving this crisis. Let’s make sure Saúl’s courage (and that of plaintiffs in similar cases) leads to real impact. ??? ?? #SaulvsRWE #ClimateLitigation #KlimaKlage

?? LIVE UPDATES FROM A CRITICAL MOMENT IN HISTORY ?? ?? This week Sébastien Duyck, senior attorney at the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), is reporting live, providing updates on a critical moment in the history of climate litigation. ?? ?? Today and Wednesday in Hamm, Germany ???? hearings are taking place in a case brought by ???? Peruvian farmer Saul Luciano Liluya against German energy giant RWE. ?? ?? In the historic case, Mr. Liluya, represented by Dr. Roda Verheyen, is suing RWE for the proportion of climate-related #LossandDamage he and his family have incurred for which it bears responsibility. ?? ?? We are deeply grateful to Sébastien Duyck for the public service he is providing from inside the room where the hearings are taking place. ?? We urge you to follow his account for updates. ??

?? Following the completion of the inaugural Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program, we are very pleased to share two important briefs providing transdisciplinary? recommendations and reflections on #LossAndDamage policy making, response, research, advocacy, and artist practices. ?? ??Read them both here: https://lnkd.in/e75Gss5N! 1?? ??The first brief builds upon the knowledge shared throughout the inaugural Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program by critical thinkers, artists and Loss and Damage actors. This brief provides reflections and recommendations intended to inform Loss and Damage policy making, response, research, advocacy, and artist practices, spanning considerations across policy making and implementation, upholding human rights, transformation, decolonisation, restorative justice and reparation, participation, critical thinking and pedagogy. ??? ????This brief has been informed by the invaluable knowledge shared by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, T.J. Demos, Farhana Sultana, Ph.D., Zahra Malkani, Gabriela De Matos, Nombuso Mathibela, Sibonelo Gumede, Olúfemi O. Táíwò, Harjeet Singh, Isatis Cintrón Rodríguez, Andrea Carmen, Robert Albro, Ashish Ghadiali, Vivien Sansour, and Amali Tower throughout the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program alongside the valuable contributions of the programs coordinators Lena Dobrowolska, Phoebe-Lin Elnan and Teo Ormond-Skeaping as well as Verena Gresz. 2???? ??The second brief builds upon the coordinators experiences of running of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program, as well as feedback shared by program participants, to provide reflections and recommendations intended to aid those seeking to foster transdisciplinary conversations and collaboration on the issue of loss and damage. These reflections and recommendations span coordination and operations, ethics, participation, critical thinking, pedagogical engagement of a diverse range of actors and scaling up this important work. ??The Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage program has been generously supported by the Open Society Foundations and is a part of the The Loss and Damage Collaboration’s Art and Culture program. ???? Although we do not yet know what the future holds for Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage, please do keep in touch and sign up to the mailing list to stay informed: https://lnkd.in/eRUW6spn ?? See all the recordings of the Ways of Repair : Loss and Damage symposium here: https://lnkd.in/eJD55py7 ?? The recordings of the public program here: https://lnkd.in/e6RVapVZ ?? Read the Texts of Repair commissioned by the program here: https://lnkd.in/eSwNrQkp ?? See the digital restitutions of the artists in residence here:? https://lnkd.in/eFdGkPjr [Marek Szilvasi, Julie's Bicycle, Radical Ecology, Platform on Disaster Displacement, The Open University, Renata Tyszczuk]

The Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group and The Loss and Damage Collaboration joined efforts to submit input on #FossilFuels and #ClimateHarm or #LossAndDamage for UN Special Rapporteur on Climate Change Elisa Morgera's upcoming report on the Fossil Fuels-Based Economy and Human Rights. The submission highlights 6 key messages: 1?? Fossil fuels and the failure to phase them out at the pace required by science are the number one cause of climate-related loss and damage 2?? Fossil fuels and loss and damage are inextricably linked to conflict and militarization 3?? States have the obligation to phase out fossil fuels in order to avert and minimize loss and damage 4?? The phase-out of fossil fuels must happen through a just and human rights-based transition 5?? Those harmed by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis have a right to remedy and reparations 6?? The fossil fuel industry is accountable for climate harm and has responsibilities to repair it ?? Read more: https://lnkd.in/eUvZ_g74

??We share a video explainer produced by our friends at Germanwatch e.V. on the Saúl v. RWE case ?? ??Peruvian farmer and mountain guide Saúl Luciano Lliuya’s landmark climate lawsuit against German energy giant RWE reaches a pivotal moment next week. On March 17 and 19, the Higher Regional Court of Hamm, Germany, will assess whether RWE can be held partially responsible for the flood risk ?? threatening Lliuya’s hometown of Huaraz, due to the rapidly expanding Palcacocha glacial lake. This case could set a significant precedent for corporate accountability in #climatechange. ??Big polluters must be held accountable and they must pay for the #LossAndDamage they have caused! Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)