LOSS AND DAMAGE AT THE 2025 BONN CLIMATE CONFERENCE

By The Loss and Damage Collaboration

5/6/25

Liane Schalatek, Associate Director, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington DC, Nicolas Gaulin of the Loss and Damage Youth Coalition and other climate activists call for rich polluting countries and corporations to pay up for Loss and Damage and for Loss and Damage to be included in the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance at the 2024 Bonn Climate Conference.  (Loss and Damage Collaboration).

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

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

COP Presidency events

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.

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The development of these key messages has been supported by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung New York Office with support from the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

The publishers are solely responsible for the content of this publication; the opinions presented here do not reflect the position of the BMZ. We also note that views and any errors, are the authors alone and that the content of this brief does not necessarily represent the views of all the members of the Loss and Damage Collaboration.