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Dealing with the impacts of climate change | 1. August 2012

Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative

The Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative is focussing on: Building an understanding of the scope and significance of loss and damage associated with the adverse impacts of climate change; Developing and co-creating an approach and vision for loss and damage among decision makers and relevant stakeholders; Assisting least developed countries (LDCs) and other vulnerable countries to develop a coherent approach to the loss and damage debate; Identifying and beginning to take the steps needed to support a paradigm shift on loss and damage in the coming years.

Climate finance | 1. August 2012

Design of the Green Climate Fund - Some lessons learnt from the Adaptation Fund

This paper aims at assessing critical elements of the AF for the GCF, by highlighting good practices identified and concerns raised by interested stakeholders who have been following the AF since i

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UN climate conferences | 1. June 2012

Green economies in a climate-unstable world?

Delegates to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, also known as Rio+20, acknowledged that climate change is a cross-cutting and persistent crisis. They expressed great concern that the scale and gravity of the negative impacts of climate change affect all countries and undermine their ability, in particular developing countries, to achieve sustainable development and the Millennium Development Goals and threaten the viability and survival of nations.

Report | 30.07.2012

Blog on the regional expert meeting on loss and damage, Mexico City

From 23 to 25 July, the second regional expert meeting on loss and damage under this year´s UNFCCC work programme took place in Mexico City. Its aim was to increase the understanding of a range of approaches to address loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. While the first expert meeting took place in Addis Abeba in June to address African aspects on loss and damage, this meeting covered Latin America and the Caribbean. ...

Report | 05.07.2012

Loss and damage from the adverse effects of climate change – a SIDS view on Africa

The views expressed in this piece are solely those of the author. They are not meant to represent the views of organisations, institutions or countries mentioned here or elsewhere.

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UN climate conferences Dealing with the impacts of climate change | 1. December 2011

Analysis: Loss & damage related outcomes of COP 17 in Durban

At COP17 in Durban, South Africa, negotiators were able to reach consensus on elements of the SBI Work Program on Loss and Damage which was established at COP16, for the period from COP17 to COP18 (2012). This section summarizes the major elements of the decision and its implications for LDC and other vulnerable countries in 2012, including on opportunities for these countries to utilize 2012 to articulate their needs and positions in the issue area.

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Dealing with the impacts of climate change | 1. June 2012

Gauging solutions for climate loss and damage in Africa

Loss and damage from climate change impacts is the major theme of the adaptation negotiation in 2012.

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Dealing with the impacts of climate change | 1. July 2012

The recent SREX report and the UNFCCC loss and damage discourse

The topic of loss and damage in the context of climate change is a major focus in the adaptation discussion under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) climate talks in

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Dealing with the impacts of climate change | 1. June 2012

Loss and Damage Associated with Climate Change

The 36th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Implementation (SBI-36) under the UNFCCC was held in Bonn from 14 -25 May, 2012.

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Dealing with the impacts of climate change | 1. June 2012

Loss and Damage in Vulnerable Countries Initiative

The least developed countries (LDCs) are both the least responsible for and the most vulnerable to climate change impacts.

Bild: Drehbuchwettbewerb - Welt im Kino

Report | 15.06.2012

Script competition: "The Great Transformation"

On the occasion of our international NGO-dialog project “NGO Strategy Dialogue on Energy and Climate, Agriculture and Food Security towards the Great Transformation - NGO SEAT” with an international conference attended by 150 international experts from all over the world (Bonn, 1-4 November 2012) we announce a competition for the best script on the topic of the Great Transformation. If you think you have an extraordinarily unique, amazingly original, and at the same time well-founded, intelligent and entertaining script idea in your mind – send it to us!

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Climate finance | 1. June 2012

The Goal of 100bn USD of Climate Finance

This discussion paper addresses and raises different questions regarding what kind of private finance could be included in the 100bn USD of climate finance, which developed countries committed to mobilize annually by 2020.

Picture: Poster Connecting the Dots - Flight

Education for Sustainable Development | 1. June 2012

Poster 3 of 3: If you're still wondering what your flight to Dubai has to do with natural disasters... (from the poster series „Connecting the dots“)

1. FLYING GENERATES MORE CLIMATE RELEVANT EMISSIONS THAN ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITY 2. THOSE GREENHOUSE GASES INCREASE GLOBAL TEMPERATURES, 3. CAUSING FURTHER EVAPORATION OF THE OCEANS AND 4. TRIGGERING EXTREME RAINFALL IN REGIONS ALREADY SATURATED WITH PRECIPITATION, 5. WHERE SOME OF THE WORST FLOODS EVER RECORDED HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF LIFES!

Report | 01.06.2012

Loss and damage: building up steam at the Bonn climate talks

Participants in the recent UNFCCC conference in Bonn made only slow progress on negotiations. There was a deadlock on agreeing a new legal outcome to replace the Kyoto Protocol, and many developed countries were reluctant to explore innovative funding options. However, discussion on the loss and damage caused by climate change (that is, losses that are sustained when mitigation and adaptation efforts fail) made substantive advances. ...

Picture: Poster Climate Change is not a Game

Education for Sustainable Development | 1. June 2012

Poster: Climate change is not a game

Global fairness means that all carry responsibilities. The consequences of our lifestyles impact the poor and powerless the most. Limiting global warming to less than a 2°C increase through drastic emission cuts in the developed world and greater climate protection in developing countries is necessary for our climate and our survival!

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Education for Sustainable Development Global trade | 1. June 2012

Poster 1 of 3: If you're still wondering what your T-bone steak has to do with desertification... (from the poster series „Connecting the dots“)

1. YOUR LOW PRICED STEAK IS PRODUCED BY 2. CATTLE FED CHEAP CORN AND SOY, 3. GROWN IN FIELDS WHERE RAINFORESTS WERE SLASHED AND BURNT, 4. MEANING THEY ARE NOT LONGER ABLE TO GENERATE RAINFALL IN DRIER REGIONS, 5. WHERE HIGH TEMPERATURES ACCELERATE DRASTIC DESERTIFICATION AND DROUGHT!

Picture: Poster One World - One Climate

Education for Sustainable Development | 1. June 2012

Poster: One World, One Climate!

Pablo Bicheroux ranked third prize in Germanwatch poster contest "Climate Justice" with his contribution "One world, one climate!“

Picture: Poster Connecting the Dots - SUV

Education for Sustainable Development | 1. June 2012

Poster 2 of 3: If you're still wondering what your SUV has to do with social injustice... (from the poster series „Connecting the dots“)

1. THE BIGGER YOUR CAR, 2. THE MORE EMISSIONS IT RELEASES, WHICH 3. DRY OUT AGRICULTURAL REGIONS AROUND THE WORLD, 4. MAKING IT HARDER FOR SMALL FARMERS TO MAKE A LIVING 5. AND FORCING THEM TO MIGRATE TO CITIES, INCREASING THE GAP BETWEEN RICH AND POOR!

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REDDplus – Forest Conservation as an Opportunity for Development and Reducing Poverty

Germanwatch is convinced that the international mechanism for rainforest conservation and reduction of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - REDDplus - will be only effective in the long-term if conservation activities in the developing countries are linked to measures that help erradicate poverty and support sustainable development.

Deckblatt: Performance Review of the Interim Arrangement of the Adaptation Fund

Climate finance | 1. March 2012

Performance Review of the Interim Arrangement of the Adaptation Fund

The performance review aims at inspecting the effectiveness and adequacy of the Adaptation Fund (AF) and its institutional arrangements with the goal of providing the Conference of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) with concrete recommendations for an appropriate decision.