Loss and Damage Challenges in the Pacific

Loss and Damage (L&D) refers to the adverse effects of climate change that cannot be prevented or mitigated. These impacts are particularly ...

Policy Primer On Loss And Damage Considerations For Pacific ...

While mitigation and adaptation priorities and challenges remain, this commitment creates opportunity to increase the support required to address the impacts ...

Understanding “loss and damage” from climate change across the ...

Floods in Southeast Asia, severe tropical cyclones in the Pacific, islands and coastal settlements threatened by sea level rise and millions of ...

Loss and Damage - Sharing the Lived Experience of Pacific Islanders

11 December 2023, Dubai UAE - The breakthrough establishment of the Loss and Damage Fund at the opening of this year's COP28 was a momentous ...

Policy Primer on Loss and Damage Considerations for Pacific Island ...

The Loss and Damage Research Paper outlines critical issues related to financing loss and damage associated with climate change, ...

Losing Identity and Place: Understanding Non-economic Loss and ...

Non-economic impacts must be understood and included in the full picture of loss and damage. For the Pacific Island countries, the non-economic ...

SPREP paper on current approaches to adaptation and ... - UNFCCC

The types of loss and damage of greatest concern in the Pacific Island Countries relate to sea level ... significant challenge. It is unlikely that any of ...

COP28 and the Unaccounted Loss and Damage for Pacific Youth

Non-economic loss and damage encompass a range of intangible impacts, including the loss of home land, cultural identity, traditional indigenous knowledge, ...

Pacific surges forward on climate and disaster resilience - UNDRR

The devastating impact of the climate emergency is most visible among the islands of the world, where the Pacific region remains at the ...

POLICY PRIMER ON LOSS AND DAMAGE CONSIDERATIONS ...

challenges, and increasingly extreme disaster ... Loss and Damage Policy Brief. Pacific Perspectives Briefing Series. Conclusion: The Governance Challenge.

Pacific Islands | Humanitarian Action

The Pacific region is one of the most disaster-prone regions in the world. Small, vulnerable island states are isolated by vast expanses of ocean.

Climate Change and Pacific Islander Life | GJIA

To do so, policymakers must go beyond initiatives such as “loss and damage” to avoid creating further problems. Pacific Islanders. The Pacific ...

Loss and Damage already a painful reality for Fiji | Pacific Environment

Loss and Damage was first introduced to the UN Climate Negotiations by Vanuatu in 1991, on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) ...

Acting on Climate Change & Disaster Risk for the Pacific - World Bank

Much more remains to be done. This booklet provides a snapshot of: the challenges posed by climate change and natural hazards in the Pacific; policy.

A Loss and Damage Fund in the Pacific? - Toda Peace Institute

At last year's COP27 in Egypt, an agreement was reached to establish a Loss and Damage Fund for countries, such as those in the Pacific, ...

Pacific Island Nations Seek Climate Solutions Outside of COP28

These impacts are wide ranging: rising sea levels, salinization and dwindling availability of fresh water, increasing and more intense tropical ...

Non-economic loss and damage: insights from the Pacific Islands

Pacific Islanders are already experiencing loss and damage in profound ways that negatively affects their health, ways of being, and connection ...

Climate change transforms Pacific Islands

A triple whammy of accelerating sea level rise, ocean warming and acidification is imperilling Pacific Islands, which face growing threats to their ...

Understanding and responding to climate-driven non-economic loss ...

They documented that: “[n]on-economic loss and damage induced by climate change in the Pacific Islands region has been reported as fears of cultural loss, ...

Climate Change Challenges to Security in the Pacific Islands Region

levels, other flooding, and storm damage). Potential second-order conse- quences include economic loss from these events, declining revenues from tourism, and ...