Thread by @LossandDamage

Here is our #LossAndDamage focused update from the 8th day of the #BonnClimateConference. With negotiations likely to continue into the early
hours of tomorrow morning, we are reaching a decisive moment on #LossAndDamage at #SB56.

Yesterday the second technical expert dialogue on the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG) took place where #LossAndDamage finance was raised by several developing countries.

Going forward it will be important for developing countries to continue to raise the importance of integrating #LossAndDamage finance into the NCQG so that it is captured in the final text at #COP27.

This morning we read this powerful opinion piece from The Prime Minister of the Republic Of #Vanuatu, The Honourable Bob Loughman Weibur, in which he explains why #Vanuatu is seeking an advisory opinion on #ClimateJustice and #HumanRights from the International Court of Justice.

Read it here: newsweek.com/addressing-cli…

Highlights included The Honourable Bob Loughman Weibur’s indication that the #ICJ opinion was focused on "clarifying the obligations of states to protect #HumanRights" in relation to the #LossAndDamage that those in front-line communities like #Vanuatu are already suffering.

This afternoon @ColinMcQuistan of @PracticalAction and @HeidiMareeWhite of @CaninT & L&DC facilitated @IIED & @PracticalAction’s event "Ensuring the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage is fit for purpose".

You can watch it again here:

The discussion highlighted that Parties have different visions for the #SantiagoNetwork. With developed nations envisioning the network as a light structure that relies heavily on its members for expertise and delivery of technical assistance.

And developing nations supporting a structure with greater capacity to ensure it can deliver its functions effectively.

Highlights included @ColinMcQuistan of @PracticalAction reiterating the scale at which #LossAndDamage will take place by 2030 and therefore what the #SantiagoNetwork should be capable of responding to be considered “fit for purpose”.

https://twitter.com/LossandDamage/status/1536705972261031940

@harjeet11 and @tetetlauron on how the #SantiagoNetwork must strengthen capacity in the global South and not see technical assistance delivered by consultants “helicoptered in” from the global North to the benefit of Northern institutions.

https://twitter.com/LossandDamage/status/1536680825869197312

And Hifij Khan of the ExCom of the Warsaw International Mechanism for #LossAndDamage (WIM) on the need to shape the #SantiagoNetwork around the needs, experiences and understanding of impacted communities.

https://twitter.com/LossandDamage/status/1536693610430795777

There are two key issues being discussed tonight at the #BonnClimateConference. The G77 and China will be fighting to assure that #LossAndDamage is a standing agenda item and negotiations will continue on the structure and operational modalities of the #SantiagoNetwork.

Unfortunately, following the conclusion of Heads of Delegation meeting this evening, we understand there was no consensus on the way forward on discussions on an agenda item on the #GlasgowDialogue on #LossAndDamage though we are keeping hope alive for a positive outcome!!!

We know that developing countries will continue to push to assure that the discussion from the #GlasgowDialogue will inform setting up a #LossAndDamage finance facility whilst pursuing broader discussions about funding for #LossAndDamage at the scale of the needs.

We also can’t forget that #LossAndDamage was raised by many in the roundtables and world cafes during the technical dialogue of the Global Stocktake of the #ParisAgreement (GST) here in Bonn.

We expect these discussions to continue. We all need to contemplate how we can assess our collective progress towards addressing #LossAndDamage as a global community. Clearly, we are failing at the moment.

With less than three days to go at the #BonnClimateConference, several important outcomes on #LossAndDamage are still needed:

1. Agreement on an agenda item on #LossAndDamage finance at #COP27 to discuss how to meet the full scope of needs in developing countries,

2. Ensuring the #GlasgowDialogue has a concrete outcome including establishing a #LossAndDamage finance facility at #COP27,

3. Agreement on the structure and operational modalities of the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage that includes an advisory body to ensure a party-driven and needs-based #SantiagoNetwork,

4. Ensuring #LossAndDamage is captured in the outcome of both the GST and the NCQG at #COP27,