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Climate finance at the SB58: What is at stake at the 2023 UN climate talks in Bonn?

5. June 2023 |

Over the next two weeks, the SB58 climate talks will be held in Bonn, advancing the international climate regime and preparing the next UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai at the end of the year. Again, climate finance will be... more

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First Transitional Committee Meeting for new Loss and Damage Funding Arrangements and new Fund Showcases Major Fault Lines

26. April 2023 |

hbsDC and others _submission to inform the work of the Transitional Committee_for TC2_FINAL Climate change is causing widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages, with grave effects on gender and social equity, as the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on... more

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Breakthrough in loss and damage financing at COP27

3. February 2023 |

COP27, which took place in November in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was characterized by one theme in particular: the increasingly frequent cases ofLoss and Damage related to climate change and its corresponding finance. So far, there is no clear finance structure... more

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Unpacking Finance for Loss and Damage

16. March 2021 |

The publication “Unpacking Finance for Loss and Damage” draws lessons from COVID‑19 for addressing loss and damage in vulnerable developing countries and gives an overview from and needs and potential sources for financing loss and damage.... more

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Debt relief in response to loss and damage caused by climate change

24. June 2020 |

Severe storms inflicting considerable damage on affected countries or regions are nothing new. However, there is every indication that global warming will make extreme weather events such as hurricanes, droughts and floods more frequent and more intense. Between 1998 and... more

International climate finance / Loss and Damage

Building resilience: climate impacts and corona

5. May 2020 |

The poorest populations in the Global South are fighting against the yet unforeseeable consequences of the coronavirus and the impacts of climate change simultaneously. They urgently need support in building resilience to the health crises and in dealing with unavoidable... more

International climate finance / Gender / Innovative sources of financing / Loss and Damage

The tasks for COP25: Significant increase finance and support for gender-just climate resilience measures

2. December 2019 |

As climate impacts become more severe and frequent, increasing finance for climate resilience for the most vulnerable people is of utmost urgency. The 2016 Adaptation Finance Gap Report estimates the annual costs of adaptation in developing countries could range from... more

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Climate risk financing should close protection gap against loss & damage

14. June 2019 |

Climate change has increasingly led to more climate induced loss and damage (L&D) over the last years. According to data provided by the Munich Re NatCatService, the cumulated economic losses as a result of extreme weather events between 1998 and... more

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The InsuResilience Global Partnership (IGP) needs a clear focus on the most vulnerable and a vision beyond insurance

28. November 2017 |

On 14 November 2017, the InsuResilence Global Partnership (IGP) was launched at a high level event during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn. The partnership is an expansion of the InsuResilience initiative which was founded in 2015 under... more

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Non-Economic Loss And Damage

30. October 2017 |

This discussion paper from Brot für die Welt demonstrates that climate-induced non-economic loss and damage (NELD) includes forms of damage that cannot be measured or compensated financially. It includes loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, land, territories, artefacts, life, health,... more