Loss and damage
Why developed countries should back loss and damage in Paris
COMMENT: The costs of tackling failed states as a result of climate impacts could be far higher than investing in adequate insurance now
Tuvalu PM warns against suing oil majors for climate damage
NEWS: Litigation mooted by neighbour Vanuatu undermines UN climate deal chances, leader of low-lying Pacific island says
G7 nods to loss and damage claims with climate insurance pledge
NEWS: Developing world’s access to insurance following natural disasters to jump five-fold in five years, rich club of countries aims
Vanuatu backs plan to sue major carbon polluters for climate damage
NEWS: Pacific island’s president supports moves by vulnerable communities to explore legal avenues for court case
Loss and damage: compensation or information?
NEWS: Experts disagree on whether to make polluters pay for unavoided climate change impacts on vulnerable communities
Climate change will increase flow of migrants to Europe
COMMENT: Grim death toll will get worse unless coordinated action is taken to tackle climate change, conflicts and poverty
Hurricane Katrina to Cyclone Pam: whose losses count more?
COMMENT: All countries are not equal when it comes to coping with disasters, and some will suffer more as climate impacts intensify
Cyclone Pam raises climate profile in UN disaster talks
NEWS: Storm that devastated Vanuatu puts spotlight on climate change links to disaster risk reduction negotiations in Sendai
The EU’s attempt to take leadership at UN climate talks is lame
COMMENT: Brussels wins the prize for announcing its climate pledge first, but it has missed an opportunity to ensure Paris helps poorer countries
Exclusion of ‘loss and damage’ would make Paris deal useless
COMMENT: Unless diplomats design UN deal to cope with climate damage, it will soon become redundant, says Saleemul Huq
Big oil must pay for climate change harm to world’s poorest
COMMENT: Typhoon-hit Filipinos are paying with their lives for climate change. A levy on fossil fuels could help protect them
Who’s to blame for climate change?
ANALYSIS: Scientists are starting to undertake the politically dangerous task of figuring out who can be blamed for extreme weather disasters
Loss and damage: a guide for the confused
ANALYSIS: What is loss and damage? How does it work? And why do poor countries care so much?
UN inches forward with climate compensation plans
NEWS: “Loss and damage” team will take two years to consider climate compensation options
Loss and damage: UN receives new climate compensation plans
NEWS: Ideas flood in on how Warsaw’s loss and damage mechanism could limit damage to the world’s most vulnerable
Funding adaptation: rich countries need to deliver before Paris
COMMENT: A successful UN climate deal in 2015 will require guaranteed flows of support for climate vulnerable countries, writes Saleemul Huq
Small islands must take the helm on ‘loss and damage’
COMMENT: Small island states were excluded from the UN’s ‘loss and damage’ committee; it’s time they are invited to the table
UN climate science report will highlight ‘limits to adaptation’
NEWS: Focus on limits to adaptation within the new IPCC report could sharpen focus on loss and damage within UN talks
Loss and damage: the calm before the storm?
Countries agreed to address losses and damages linked to climate change at a summit in Warsaw, but now comes the hard part
Philippines warning as communities return to danger zones post Haiyan
Inadequate funding and local opposition means that Filipino communities are rebuilding homes destroyed by typhoon in vulnerable areas