Key Messages for the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage
26/9/25
Mingora city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and its surrounding areas have been severely affected by climate intensified monsoon flooding. The floods have caused significant loss and damage across Pakistan including the loss of more than 1000 lives and displacement of at least 1.8 million people. In many cases, places like Mingora that were severely impacted by the devastating flooding of 2022 are once again submerged. Image credit: (Kamran Kami / Shutterstock).
The twenty-third meeting of the Executive Committee (ExCom 23) of the Warsaw International Mechanism for #LossAndDamage (WIM) will take place from 30 September to 2 October 2025 in Bonn, Germany. On 29 September, there will also be a closed Committee-only informal meeting and the third meeting of all of the thematic Expert Groups of the WIM ExCom. The provisional agenda with annotations for ExCom 23 includes several critical issues to be discussed over the three days of the meeting. These are:
- Preparation of voluntary guidelines for enhancing collection and management of data and information to inform preparation of biennial transparency reports.
- How the latest climate science can inform policy-making relevant to averting, minimizing, and addressing loss and damage.
- Work related to the ExCom’s Expert Groups.
- Cross-cutting activities of the second five-year rolling workplan.
- Collaboration with the Advisory Board of the Santiago Network and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD).
These key messages are arranged according to selected agenda items: 4–16 and are not necessarily comprehensive or arranged in order of how they will be addressed during ExCom 23. They will continue to be updated, as needed, to align with developments in the agenda items being discussed.
Read the full text here:
Read the full text here:
Watch the video here: