What we do

Illuminate

We run the largest global knowledge platform on Loss and Damage and shed light on the complex UN climate negotiations and provide thought leadership to drive ambitious policy outcomes.

Advocate

We communicate with clarity what frontline communities and developing countries need to thrive and work with champions and decision-makers to translate this awareness into action.

Collaborate

Our unique platform enables practitioners, negotiators and researchers from diverse backgrounds to collaborate at a global scale. By uniting our voices, we drive more ground-breaking change.

Empower

From technical advice to tailored on-the-ground support, we ensure negotiators from the Global South are equipped to advocate for what their communities and countries truly need.

Advocacy and Outreach

Our Advocacy and Outreach Project works to amplify the Loss and Damage demands of developing countries within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). To do so, we aim to facilitate coordination and complementarity amongst actors working on Loss and Damage and encourage them to engage with the needs of vulnerable developing countries.

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Art and Culture

Our Art and Culture Program brings together art and cultural practitioners and Loss and Damage actors to explore the role that art and culture can play in addressing climate-related loss and damage. This project also supports the translation of Loss and Damage for a lay audience and helps develop compelling narratives that resonate across communities.

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Loss and Damage Finance

Our project on Loss and Damage finance works to address two key issues: The first is to mobilise finance at the scale of the needs with a focus on addressing loss and damage. The second issue is providing thought leadership on how finance should be channelled to vulnerable developing countries and the vulnerable people and communities within them. Since COP 27 our work also includes a focus on operationalising the Loss and Damage fund. We are also working to ensure that Loss and Damage finance is included as a sub-goal under the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate FInance (NCQG) and included in the output of Global Stocktake.

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LDYC

The Loss and Damage Youth Coalition (LDYC) is an alliance of youth from the global North and South who have come together to demand action on addressing Loss and Damage caused by climate change. With more than 900 members from over 70 countries the LDYC is working to build a borderless global partnership between youth to take action on addressing loss and damage. LDYC is a separate and distinct initiative which grew out of L&DC’s work and with whom we continue to work closely.

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Loss and Damage, Human Mobility and Displacement

Convened by the Loss and Damage Collaboration(L&DC), the "Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group" looks at Displacement and Human Mobility in the context of Loss and Damage workstreams under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) including the Loss and Damage Fund, Santiago Network, the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage and the expert groups of its Executive Committee (ExCom).

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Loss and Damage and Human Rights

Recognising that loss and damage is already severely undermining theenjoyment of a wide range of human rights, including the rights to life, food, water, adequate housing, health, education, a healthy environment, participation in cultural life, and disproportionately impacting individuals and groups that have been made vulnerable through historic marginalisation, the Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) works to ensure that human rights are respected, protected and promoted in the context of climate-related harm, and approaches to address loss and damage. The Loss and Damage and Human Rights working group brings together experts from the Loss and Damage Collaboration and the Human Rights and Climate Change Working Group work to produce key messages to inform the integration of human rights-based approaches into Loss and Damage policy-making, in particular under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Non-Economic Loss and Damage

Our Non-economic Loss and Damage (NELD) Project works to shine a spotlight on the non-economic dimensions of loss and damage within the UNFCCC process, academia, and other forums relevant to Loss and Damage decision-making. Through an exploration of how we can measure, assess, and address NELD, the group works to further understanding and awareness of this critical yet undervalued component of climate governance.

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Santiago Network

Our Santiago Network project provides a space for the sharing of technical expertise as well as the development of papers and briefs to support thought leadership on the effective operationalisation of the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Following COP 27, this work will include a focus on ensuring that the Santiago Network is adequately resourced to provide technical assistance to vulnerable developing countries.

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Support Centre

Our support centre provides targeted and on-demand support for Loss and Damage negotiators from developing countries. Through the Support Centre we also work to strengthen support for young negotiators from developing countries through the The New Generation program.

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The New Generation

The New Generation program is a joint initiative between the Climate Leadership Initiative and the L&DC. The aim of the program is to empower young negotiators from the global South to advocate for support for addressing loss and damage for their countries and the households and communities within them.

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Wellbeing

We are committed to fostering essential conversations and sharing resources on well-being. Our goal is to cultivate well-being within our community, creating a network of thriving change-makers. Our wellbeing page serves as a platform for sharing reflections on well-being, including a yearlong series on the foundations of well-being from our Global Lead, Erin Roberts. We invite your input and reflections—this page is for you!

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Events

We host and facilitate both public and closed events on a range of topics relevant to Loss and Damage in collaboration with practitioners, researchers, activists and decision makers from both the global North and South on a range of topics relating to the need to address climate change related loss and damage. Please let us know if there is an event you’d like to see here. Feel free to get in touch with us if you have information about an event you’d like us to feature on this page.

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Publications

We develop publications, including papers, briefs and submissions, within our working groups and in collaboration with practitioners, researchers, activists, artists and decision makers from both the global North and South. We also host a library of Loss and Damage publications from a diverse range of actors.

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Stories

We gather stories, blogs and opinion pieces from those working on Loss and Damage. Ranging from lived experiences to trials and tribulations at the negotiating table, to visions for a climate just future, these works stress the need to address loss and damage at all levels and also highlight issues relevant for the Loss and Damage community, which is the broad community of stakeholders —initiatives, movements, campaigns, organisations, communities and countries— working to ensure that vulnerable people, communities and countries have the resources and tools they need to address loss and damage.

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