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#NewStudy | What Gets Measured, Gets Done: Leveraging Transparency to Improve Loss and Damage Response Climate change is causing irreversible damage, particularly in vulnerable communities. We need accurate and comprehensive data on Loss and Damage to effectively address these impacts. Currently, there are significant gaps in data on economic damages, especially in developing countries. 65% of reported events across all countries lack data on economic damages 📊 Our new study delves into the critical role of transparency in understanding and responding to climate-related losses and damages. We explore: ▶️The limitations of current reporting mechanisms ▶️The importance of data-driven decision-making ▶️The potential of enhanced transparency to inform policy and action Read our study to learn how we can strengthen climate resilience and ensure a just and equitable transition 👇 https://lnkd.in/g8wfqATV Jhalak Aggarwal Sumit Prasad #ClimateChange #LossAndDamage #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #ClimateFinance #ClimatePolicy 

Not only is climate financing for locally-led health adaptation insufficient, but 90% doesn’t reach the local level 🌍 Investing in locally led adaptation strategies not only enhances resilience but also ensures that solutions are tailored to the unique challenges faced by communities. Founder of the Rise up Climate Movement and Youth for Future Africa, Vanessa Nakate, stresses the importance of understanding these impacts to find effective local solutions. Vanessa is quoted in our latest Action Report, authored by our Collective MindS Climate & Health Council, which lays out specific actions for adapting to the health impacts of climate change. #FromRiskToResilience #TimeToAdapt

Loss and Damage was the buzzword in climate talk after Sharm-el-Sheik in 2022, so much so that it piqued my curiosity, and I aligned my Master's thesis on operationalising L&D for the Global South. Even after its official operationalization in the last COP, walking the talk for L&D has much ground to cover - data gaps being primary in that regard. Find the following issue brief by my colleagues working on #Climate Negotiations at #CEEW identifying actionable pathways to leverage #transparency in the L&D discourse and bridge that cleft! #LossandDamage #Transparency #COP29

Data is the missing piece of the Loss and damage puzzle and hence it is crucial to bring transparency into this process. Read the recent issue brief that highlights this key challenge ahead of #cop29 in #Baku.

Data, facts, and knowledge on various facets of L&D are critical to evidence-based decision-making. Our issue brief evaluates the scope for climate transparency in loss and damage data and reporting to foster better response to loss and damage. We identify the relevant stakeholders and explore how their collective capacities can be leveraged to transcend the existing gaps. As we move towards #COP29 , our report's outcomes can informing negotiations, enhancing climate transparency and operationalising effective delivery of the Fund for responding to Loss and damage. #lossanddamage #climatefinance #COP29 #climatetransparency

Globally,every region of the world faces natural hazard impacts but the impacts and response challenges are particularly acute in developing nations.This is due to countries having both low adaptive capacity and high vulnerability. Even at the levels of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global heating, the health related risks of climate change are rapidly growing and already costing lives and livelihoods.Health systems are increasingly strained and failure to support equitable adaptation has left populations unprotected in the face of increased climate hazards. We cannot have climate justice without adaptation finance. Agape Earth Coalition #AdaptationInFocus #AdaptationGap #climatefinance

The IPCC’s 6th Assessment Report on climate mobility examines the effects of climate change on migration and displacement, focusing on increased vulnerability and adaptation needs. Climate-driven events like floods and extreme heat are causing significant internal and cross-border displacement, especially in Africa, Asia, and small island states. Migration often doesn’t reduce risk, as migrants may encounter similar hazards, and climate mobility can worsen gendered vulnerabilities. Adaptation via mobility is viable with adequate support, such as climate finance, but barriers like economic constraints limit its feasibility, especially for low-income households. To enable informed adaptation, the report calls for improved climate literacy, early warning systems, and locally specific climate services. Effective governance is vital, with coordinated, inclusive policies that protect at-risk populations. The Global Centre for Climate Mobility supports adaptive strategies that allow vulnerable communities to stay, migrate, or relocate safely, emphasizing regional adaptation planning. The IPCC stresses that climate-resilient development is possible with international cooperation, robust policy frameworks, and strong financial support. #ClimateMobility #ClimateAdaptation #IPCCReport

What I take from this: be clear and confident when talking about climate change and the need for action. Proud to be working for an organisation that funds climate research and innovation across multiple disciplines to help us reach net zero by 2050. https://lnkd.in/en5KbprU

Sustainability & behaviour: There is an interesting divergence between what people think is ‘right’ to do and what people ‘actually’ do. Most smokers think they should quit, want to quit, but they don’t quit. This isn’t as simple as it seems. Deep down our wiring for competition, survival, life in the short term is coming into conflict with the long term… It’s worth reading about public opinions to slavery, apartheid, wars, drought, famine, and so many other causes we ‘all’ subscribe to but take insufficient collective action against. This can help us to better understand why we as a collective don’t seem to have a real interest in addressing environmental sustainability. We seem happy to live in big urban ‘hives’. We seem happy to control the environment and ‘retreat’. There is a low personal impact to mass extinctions. But it’s not good! What we ‘want’ is not aligned with a sustainable future for the environment. Ideas in conflict. Deep down I think we know this… which is why COP gets agreement on adaptation funds but not mitigation. A step change in behaviour is urgent! This is most obvious at the extremes… but who are we to deny the ‘suburban dream’, cars, refrigerators, aircon etc to billions? It’s time we are honest with ourselves about our drivers, biases & prejudices. And it’s time we acknowledge the influence of our behaviours and our privilege on the environment and step up to make a small and growing change.

#ClimateCrisis #Conflict #ClimateChangeAdaptation Publication 'Climate finance and conflict: adaptation amid instability' 'Climate change and conflict are co-occurring, but not in consistent or predictable ways. In this article for the Lancet Planetary Health Journal, ACLED President & CEO Clionadh Raleigh, et al. argue for further understanding of conflict dynamics to effectively adapt to climate change in areas experiencing violence.' https://lnkd.in/ezzgwhbH Link to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) index in comment box below.