Adaptation and Loss and Damage
The Adaptation project was created to investigate values, practices, and synergies at the nexus of adaptation and loss and damage. It aims to ensure sustainable development by meeting communities where they are and supporting them on the ground. The group serves as a dedicated space for diverse stakeholders: researchers, policymakers, UNFCCC negotiators, scientists, NGOs, funders, and affected communities, to collaborate on solutions, align strategies, and raise finance across the full spectrum from adaptation to loss and damage.
Research is central to our work, we aim to identify hard and soft limits to adaptation, document community-led practices, and translate evidence into actionable knowledge. Through active policy tracking at UNFCCC events (COPs, SB sessions, and Adaptation Committee meetings), we monitor how loss and damage indicators emerge. By fostering strategic alignment among all stakeholders, we aim to build a new narrative: adaptation and loss and damage are complementary, not competing, agendas.
To find out more about the working group please contact: malek@lossanddamagecollaboration.org
Team Members
MALEK ROMDHANE
Malek Romdhane is a climate policy expert, researcher, and UNFCCC youth negotiator on climate adaptation, a Loss and Damage Fellow of the New Generation Program, a graduate of the UN Geneva Graduate Study Programme on SDGs and Agenda 2030, and currently leads the Adaptation Project within the Loss and Damage Collaboration.
Her research within the Adaptation project investigates the hard and soft limits of adaptation, community-led practices, and the scientific and policy evidence gaps at the intersection of adaptation and loss and damage, with a commitment to translating empirical findings into actionable knowledge for vulnerable communities and ensuring finance for loss and damage projects, driving impact on the ground for affected communities while shaping international policy through active tracking of UNFCCC negotiations and cross‑sectoral alignment between adaptation and loss and damage agendas.
