With growing demand for #LossAndDamage finance, SEI’s @BakhtaouiInes & @ZShawoo identify 6 principles to underpin #finance, and suggest that modalities should centre the needs & priorities of vulnerable communities.
4 gaps in the existing architecture suggest the need for a new #finance mechanism:
- Resources fall far short of needs
- Inadequate institutional arrangements
- Lack of instruments to address slow-onset impacts
- Lack of financing for non-economic #LossAndDamage
#LossAndDamage finance should empower vulnerable groups & put them at the centre of decision-making. Here is how the 6 principles can be operationalised:
(3/9)
Key message 1:
Negotiations on #LossAndDamage finance at #COP27 should prioritise simplified & enhanced direct access procedures that deliver funding directly to communities & marginalised groups.
(4/9)
Key message 2:
#LossAndDamage financing must take a people-based approach, which centres the needs of vulnerable and marginalised communities.
Options include:
- devolution in decision-making structures
- integration of representatives on decision boards at all levels
(5/9)
Key message 3:
Grants-based & programmatic #finance targeting local level, as opposed to loan-based & project-based, is likely to be most effective & equitable for reaching those most in need.
Funders should prioritise small grants & unconditional cash transfers.
(6/9)
Key message 4:
Funders & policymakers should embed independent & #participatory approaches to the monitoring & evaluation in the structures of recipient countries, and create accountability mechanisms that empower recipient communities.
(7/9)
Key message 5:
A #COP27 decision could include a phased approach of establishing a #LossAndDamage facility in the medium term; while mobilising #finance through existing mechanisms in the immediate term, e.g. bilateral agreement & small-scale pilot programmes.
We are put aside from decision-making processes. We are bearing climate change impacts though we have contributed little to it,” says @NELSON84139702 at @LossDamageYouth.
Most of the existing #finance is to:
- address immediate response after a climate disaster, provided by humanitarian aid & development organisations
- prevent disasters, related to adaptation & linked to development funds, e.g. #ClimateFinance on early warning systems & insurance
In the first half of 2022, developing countries suffered USD26.2 bn economic losses, while just 6 #FossilFuel companies reported a profit of USD95 bn, finds @LossandDamage's latest report.
Rich, industrialised countries have contributed an estimated 92% of excess historical emissions, yet it is the developing & vulnerable countries that are hit the hardest by climate change impacts.