FILLING THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE: DEVELOPED COUNTRIES FAIR SHARES

By the Loss and Damage Collaboration

1/10/25

Marathon oil refinery, Carson, California. The US is the world's largest historic emitter of greenhouse gas, responsible for 23.83 percent of emissions. The fair share they should pay into the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) where it is programming 400 billion USD is just 0.54 percent of its GDP a year. Image credit: Lacka._.daisical / Shutterstock

At the seventh meeting of the Board (B7) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) the Board is expected to agree on the long term resource mobilisation strategy for the Fund. In this document we provide a table listing the fair shares that Annex 1 Parties should be paying each year towards Loss and Damage finance by 2030 under two resource mobilisation scenarios: 1) where the FRLD disburses 100 billion USD a year; and 2) where the FRLD disburses 400 billion a year.

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