Thread by @LossandDamage

1/14. 📜Powerful new report to the #UN General Assembly by the @SRClimateChange Ian Fry makes crystal clear that #LossAndDamage from #ClimateChange is causing a litany of #HumanRights impacts. 🧵

2/14. In its introduction, the report highlights the inequality at the heart of the #ClimateCrisis: "50% of countries are responsible for 86 % of the cumulative global CO2 emissions", #AtmosphericColonization, and why #ClimateReparations are being demanded for #LossAndDamage.

3/14. Chapter three "#LossAndDamage: a litany of #HumanRights impacts" starts by highlighting that from a #HumanRights perspective #LossAndDamage is "closely related to the right to remedy and the principle of #Reparations".

4/14. Then highlights that the @ifrc found that 97.6 million people were affected by climate- and weather-related disasters in 2019.

5/14. Before detailing the different types of #LossAndDamage that are being caused by #ClimateChange disasters starting with #floods, #heavyrains (such as those happening in #Pakistan now) and strong winds.

6/14. Coastal #storms, #floods and #SeaLevelRise such as that which is being experienced by cities like #Jakarta, and small island states such as The #MarshalIslands.

7/14. #Droughts, such as those affecting #EastAfrica, that have claimed the lives of 650,000 people since 1970, mostly in countries least responsible for the #ClimateCrisis.

8/14. And #ExtremeHeat, such as the June 2022 #HeatWave which stuck #India and #Pakistan, when at least 90 people were estimated to have died.

9/14. The report then details the expected economic costs of #LossAndDamage from #ClimateChange and that the @V20Group's economies have been hit hard by the #ClimateCrisis losing about $525 billion in the past two decades owing to the impacts of #GlobalWarming.

10/14. The Non-economic #LossAndDamage caused by #ClimateChange, including climate change #Displacement, the loss of life, human health, cultural heritage and sovereignty.

11/14. Before highlighting the inadequacy of the available funding for #LossAndDamage and that the G77 & China (which represent 2/3rds of the world's population) proposal for a #LossAndDamage Finance Facility to was rejected by just a few developed countries at #COP26.

12/14. And that when funding is provided it is provided at the whim of donor countries, often incurs more debt than and is woefully inadequate to address #LossAndDamage.

13/14: Ending on recommendations, the @SRclimatechange suggests that the #UN General Assembly establish a #LossAndDamage Finance Facility and establish an interim financial window for funding urgent #LossAndDamage under the #GreenClimate Fund and much more!!!

14/14. 📜Read @SRclimatechange's full report here: undocs.org/Home/Mobile?Fi…

👩‍🎓Learn more about #LossAndDamage here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/whatislossandd…

📼Or watch "This Is #LossandDamage Who Pays?":