COP27: Why is addressing ‘loss and damage’ crucial for climate justice?

The death and destruction that can result from climate change is not evenly distributed around the world.

Those who have often contributed the least to greenhouse gas emissions, because they are poor or live in the global south, often end up bearing the brunt of climate impacts.

...Mohamed Adow, Power Shift Africa Director: Addressing the climate crisis is a three-piece puzzle between mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage. Sadly, because of inaction by major polluters to mitigate their emissions decades ago, we ended up needing adaptation, to help vulnerable countries adapt to climate change. But because adaptation finance has proved so inadequate many poor countries remain vulnerable to climate impacts they haven’t caused and climate change is robbing them of their lives and livelihoods.