#loss and damage 新闻
Ensuring funds reach countries most in need, quickly and equitably, is climate finance’s biggest challenge.
In a tense closing plenary, countries protested the lack of finance and new adaptation indicators, amid a failure to include fossil fuels in the final agreement. The hard-won inclusion of the just transition work programme was overshadowed by vague funding promises and the exclusion of critical minerals.
In the aftermath of typhoons Kalmaegi and Fung-wong, mismanaged climate funds and weak infrastructure leave communities exposed to disaster.
Headquartered in typhoon-battered Philippines, the fund will begin disbursing money to countries devastated by extreme climate events starting June 2026. However, smaller countries and civil societies say more is needed to fill the fund.
#loss and damage 观点
This year’s advisory opinions from two prominent international courts mark a turning point, write two environmental law experts.
The legal future of sinking islands remains uncertain, and their way of life, identity, and culture hangs in the balance.
The International Court of Justice’s landmark opinion means big polluters must answer for climate harm.
碳与气候
Historic ruling finds climate change ‘imperils all forms of life’ and puts laggard nations on notice
In a landmark opinion, the world’s highest court says states must act on climate or risk breaching international law and human rights.
#loss and damage 播客
政策和金融
‘We don’t want to pit adaptation and loss and damage funds against each other’: veteran COP observer
At the close of COP30, nations agreed to triple adaptation finance by 2035, while the fund for loss and damage appeared to remain sidelined. Lidy Nacpil, a long-time attendee of the climate conference, explains why.
政策和金融
‘Never give in to fear’: Nobel peace prize nominee and Filipino Indigenous leader Vicky Tauli Corpuz
In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' month in the Philippines, the former United Nations special rapporteur tells the Eco-Business Podcast about her lifelong work to empower communities in Asia’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders.
#loss and damage 新闻发布稿
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Philippines hosts first regional policy dialogue on loss and damage for Southeast Asia
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
Resilience rising: Targeting transformative disaster risk reduction in Asia-Pacific subregions
