Loss and damage

Extreme flooding in Pakistan in 2022 affected 33 million people.

Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world’s poorest countries?

November 8, 2022Climate Change

That’s the big question coming up at the UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP27, and it’s controversial. It refers to the economic and physical costs that developing countries are facing from the impacts of climate change.

Pastoralists and their livestock at one of the few functioning boreholes in Marsabit County, Kenya. Community leaders organize when people and their animals can drink from the borehole, Nov. 3, 2021.`

Who will pay for ‘losses and damages’ caused by climate change? Developing countries make their case at COP26.

November 10, 2021Climate Change