Loss and damage
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
UK floods: a warning to those who ignore threat of climate change
Comment: Natural disasters are set to become more common in a warming world, and politicians should take note says the IIED’s Saleemul Huq
Rich nations could face climate compensation legal challenge
Monday’s top five: Huhne warns of loss and damage threat, China eyes Amazon oil, UK set for country’s largest solar farm
Loss and damage: UN needs to deliver on Warsaw climate pact
Loss and damage mechanism was a victory for developing countries, but its success will depend on work done in months ahead experts tell RTCC
Loss and damage: why is this a big issue at UN climate talks?
Saleemul Huq from the IIED explains why climate compensation is important for developing countries
Developing nations blame Australia for loss and damage talks ‘walkout’
Delegation accused of wearing t-shirts and “gorging on snacks” during critical UN talks
Loss and damage a “priority” for UN summit say civil groups
ActionAid, CARE and WWF recommend climate compensation scheme be implemented by 2015
Russia cools talk of separate loss and damage climate mechanism
Kremlin statement also indicates support for USA’s ‘bottom up’ approach to emission reduction pledges
Typhoon Haiyan sends loss and damage roaring up UN climate summit agenda
Devastation to Philippines prompts three groups of developing nations to call for climate compensation scheme to be rolled out
World’s poorest set to press rich nations for climate compensation
Whether or not rich countries should pay compensation to most vulnerable states expected to prove controversial at UN climate talks
Comment: we can’t ignore costs of loss and damage from climate change
The issue of climate compensation at UN talks is like a house with many rooms writes Saleemul Huq – but few rich countries want to explore inside