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Lessons of loss and damage for climate policy change

The Doha COP18 negotiations took a step towards compensating poorer countries for climate damages. How critical was the influence of Hurricane Sandy?

Published January 6, 2013
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged advocacy, FCCC COP18, loss and damage

COP18: NGOs propose mechanism for loss and damage

At the UN climate talks in Doha, a group of leading NGOs reports on why adaptation to climate change has limits and that we have to face up to the implications of loss and damage caused by extreme events.

Published November 29, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP18, loss and damage

COP18 Doha UN climate talks Nov 27

Germenwatch releases its Global Climate Risk Index with a warning to negotiators to pay more attention to loss and damage. And David Kaluba of Zambia sets out demands for climate finance from the poorest countries.

Published November 27, 2012
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate finance, FCCC COP18, loss and damage

Durban climate talks must grapple with loss and damage

Progress on the implications of loss and damage arising from climate change has been slow since the 2010 Cancun climate conference. The 2011 Durban round may come under pressure.

Published November 11, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged FCCC COP17, loss and damage

Hansen strikes fear into Nansen conference

Dr James Hansen had a serious message inbetween the apocalpytic scenarios of his presentation at the Nansen Conference in Oslo.

Published June 7, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate science, loss and damage

Developing countries bid for climate change litigation

Scientists and academics in South Asia are calling on environmental groups to campaign for international laws which would enable developing countries and their citizens to claim compensation for damages caused by global warming.

Published March 21, 2011
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged india, kyoto protocol, loss and damage, yahoo

CancĂșn path to climate compensation culture

Global economic recession prevented the CancĂșn climate change conference from achieving any meaningful progress. But the small print may contain significant acceptance that global warming causes “loss and damages”.

Published December 13, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged climate politics, FCCC COP16, loss and damage

Obama BP tirade opens door to climate reparations

President Obama may be winning votes by piling up the oil spill compensation costs for BP. But is he creating a precedent for environmental damages that climate change activists can exploit?

Published June 13, 2010
Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged loss and damage, oil, US
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Sluggish in the doldrums of what happens.
Me waiting until I was nearly fifty
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Time to be dazzled and the heart to lighten.

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