Dear Mountain Partnership friends,
Please refer to the message pasted below. If you have any relevant case studies or projects from mountain areas aiming at building resilience and promoting rehabilitation to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, please send input by Monday, 11 March, to Ms. Miwa Kato, Impacts, Vulnerability and Risks subprogramme, Adaptation Programme email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
For further details on work related to loss and damage under the UNFCCC process, please see http://www.unfccc.int/6056.php
Many thanks and kind regards,
Rosalaura
Rosalaura Romeo
Programme Officer
Mountain Partnership Secretariat - FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome - Italy
Tel: +39 06 570 55961<tel:%2B39%2006%20570%2055961>
Cell: +39 348 1536 377<tel:%2B39%20348%201536%20377>
www.mountainpartnership.org<http://www.nfp-facility.org/>
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Dear Nairobi work programme focal point,
We hope this message finds you well and thank you for your ongoing support of adaptation work under the UNFCCC.
The decision by COP18 on approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts, as part of the Doha Climate Gateway, requested the secretariat to prepare a technical paper on non-economic losses in the context of the work programme on loss and damage. The aim of the paper is to advance the understanding of loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.
To this end, we would like to invite you to inform us of relevant knowledge and experiences to inform the development of this technical paper, by providing information related to:
Relevant case studies, including, for example,
resilience/rehabilitation to deal with extreme or slow-onset events.
These case studies could potentially be included either as boxes in
the main text of or in an annex to the technical paper.
Ongoing projects examining slow-onset impacts under differing levels
of climate change whose results have not yet made it into the
peer-reviewed literature but may either be available online or in the
grey literature. These projects may provide insights into potential
new types of losses, or areas where the level of losses (or risk) can
be differentiated under varying levels of climate change.
If your organization is interested in contributing to the development of this paper, please send your input by Monday, 11 March, to Ms. Miwa Kato, Impacts, Vulnerability and Risks subprogramme, Adaptation Programme < [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>.
We look forward to receiving inputs from you meanwhile should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at your convenience. For your reference, a brief overview of the work programme on loss and damage is enclosed at the end of the message.
Kind regards,
Rojina on behalf of the NWP team
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Background
Work programme on loss and damage
The Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP) adopted the Cancun Adaptation Framework at COP 16 (2010) as part of the Cancun Agreements, in order to enhance action on adaptation, including through international cooperation and coherent consideration of matters related to adaptation under the Convention.
Under the Cancun Adaptation Framework, the COP established a work programme to consider approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change (work programme on loss and damage).
The elements for consideration in the context of the work programme
include:
Possible development of a climate risk insurance facility to address
impacts associated with severe weather events;
Options for risk management and reduction, risk sharing and transfer
mechanisms such as insurance, including options for micro-insurance,
and resilience-building, including through economic diversification;
Approaches for addressing rehabilitation measures associated with
slow onset events;
Engagement of stakeholders with relevant specialized expertise.
A number of activities took place in the course of 2012 to generate and share knowledge and exchange views related to three thematic areas:
Thematic area 1: Assessing the risk of loss and damage associated
with the adverse effects of climate change and the current knowledge
on the same;
Thematic area 2: A range of approaches to address loss and damage
associated with the adverse effects of climate change, including
impacts related to extreme weather events and slow onset events,
taking into consideration experience at all levels;
Thematic area 3: The role of the Convention in enhancing the
implementation of approaches to address loss and damage associated
with the adverse effects of climate change.
Taking into account the results of the work undertaken during the course of 2012, the COP at COP 18 (November–December 2012), decided to establish institutional arrangements, such as an international mechanism, to address loss and damage associate with the adverse effects of climate change in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The COP also requested the secretariat to develop a technical paper on non-economic losses in the context of the work programme on loss and damage.
For further details on work related to loss and damage under the UNFCCC process, please see http://www.unfccc.int/6056.php.
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