LOSS AND DAMAGE AT THE 2025 BONN CLIMATE CONFERENCE

The 2025 Bonn Climate Conference will take place between the 16th and 26th of June at the World Conference Center Bonn (WCCB), in Bonn, Germany. Agenda items and events relevant to Loss and Damage include:

Negotiations

• Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM):
  

1. Joint annual report of the WIM Executive Committee (ExCom) and the Santiago Network for 2024;
   
2. The third review of the WIM.

• Matters relating to the Global Stocktake (GST):
  

1. Procedural and logistical elements of the overall global stocktake process;
   
2. Modalities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dialogue on implementing the GST outcomes, referred to in paragraph 97 of decision 1/CMA.5.

Constituted Bodies’ side events

• Progress of the implementation of the work under the ExCom;
  
• Full operationalisation of the Santiago Network: Advancing a critical pillar of the loss and damage architecture.

Mandated events

• The second Annual Global Stocktake Dialogue on Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs);
  
• Sharm el-Sheikh Dialogue on the scope of Article 2, paragraph 1(c), and its complementarity with Article 9 of the Paris Agreement;
  
• Workshop sharing of experiences of developing country Parties in preparing their first Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs);
  
• Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue 2025;
  
• Gender and Climate Change workshop 2025;
  
• Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) annual dialogue for ethical and equitable engagement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities in NDCs;
  
• Workshop on systemic and holistic approaches to implementation of climate action on agriculture, food systems and food security.

COP Presidency events

• Baku to Belém Roadmap to 1.3T (Roadmap): Open consultations with Parties and open consultations with stakeholders.

This living document, which will continue to be updated, provides an overview of the context in which the Bonn Climate Conference takes place, an introduction to the majority of the items listed above above, links to relevant documents and webpages, an annex of reading material for the third review of the WIM and the Loss and Damage Collaboration’s key messages and expectations for progress on key issues.