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COP28 opened with a breakthrough decision on Loss and Damage. SEI Scientist Zoha Shawoo co-authors a piece in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on how the fund can address local crises, with fellow experts Inès Bakhtaoui and Ayesha Dinshaw.
As the 28th UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) debates climate change mitigation and adaptation in Dubai, countries and communities worldwide are already enduring the effects of climate change through more intense floods, hurricanes, wildfires and sea level rise.
But a first-day decision to adopt a Loss and Damage made some strides toward addressing the Loss and Damage, amassing more than $650 million in pledges. But, as SEI Scientist Zoha Shawoo points out, more is needed, and parties have yet to decide how to best support communities that need the most help.
Read the column she co-authored and published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Feature / SEI Scientist and Zoha Shawoo puts the COP28 loss and damage decision into perspective, saying it is both significant and inadequate for the scale of need.
Project / Vulnerable countries are already experiencing severe losses and damages from unavoidable climate change impacts. They urgently need financial support.
SEI report / The authors assessed and evaluated how the first GBP 1 million of Scottish government funding was disseminated and used, with implications for L&D finance.
Other publication / This report offers recommendations on how to operationalize a new global loss and damage fund.
SEI brief / This brief summarizes recommendations about how the new Loss & Damage Fund can best help vulnerable countries respond to and recover from climate impacts.
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