1/17.📢The core team of @LossAndDamage has arrived at #COP27 and we would like to take this opportunity to introduce ourselves. Please come and say hello 👋 and let us know 📩☎️ if you’d like to meet 🗣️to learn more about #LossAndDamage and our work. 🧵
2/17. Our founder @Rininreallife is working with us virtually 💻 for this COP. Erin, alongside @HeidiMareeWhite, will be providing technical support on #LossAndDamage for several negotiators from the #GlobalSouth. Together, Erin and Heidi lead our Support Centre.
4/17.Our coordinator @nhyacinthe791 will be focusing on her role as a #LossAndDamage negotiator for #Rwanda and will be spending a lot of time in negotiation rooms, so please do say hello if you see her! Hyacinthe also co-leads @LossDamageYouth's advocacy and outreach work group.
5/17. Our Advocacy and Outreach work is led by @TeoSkeaping. At #COP27 he will be meeting with existing and potential partners and L&DC friends. Reach out to Teo if you’re interested in working with us or if you are a journalist.
📩media@lossanddamagecollaboration.org
6/17. The co-coordinator of our work on #LossAndDamage finance, @MukayirangaEva also at #COP27 and will be negotiating finance for #Rwanda. At #COP27 Eva will focus on the negotiators and when not negotiating will also lead @LossDamageYouth's working group on training.
7/17. Our support to negotiators from the #GlobalSouth is led by @HeidiMareeWhite who also leads our project on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage. At #COP27 Heidi will be focused on the negotiations and keeping us up to speed with everything technical.
8/17. Also on our team is @InezaGrrace the Global Coordinator of @LossDamageYouth. At #COP27 Ineza will split her time between the negotiations and amplifying youth voices — both inside and outside negotiating rooms— from around the world🌐.
9/17. The @LossDamageYouth is part of the @LossandDamage family and we are honoured to work with them at #COP27, to find out what they have planned for the COP visit their website here:
10/17. Finally, @kateraffety is our #COP27 coordinator. She and Teo will be leading our work outside negotiating rooms and amplifying #LossAndDamage demands. Get in touch with Kate if you’d like to know more about #LossAndDamage at #COP27.
📩kate@lossanddamagecollaboration.org
11/17. If you are at #COP27 or following remotely see our master document 📜 for daily #LossAndDamage updates from Kate:
13/17.We are also joined by dozens of others from @LossAndDamage at #COP27. For those of you that are here (and those following virtually), please know that we are honoured to work with you and that together we can assure that action to address #LossAndDamage is taken at #COP27!
16/17. We also look forward to a new partnership with @OpenSociety next year on our Art and Culture program (see below) and welcome contact from other funders who would like to work with us to assure that #LossAndDamage is adequately addressed!
1/16. Its day three at #COP27 and here is your #LossAndDamage focused daily thread. Today we saw several pledges of funding to address #LossAndDamage from developed countries and the start of negotiations on #LossAndDamage finance.
3/16. First up was continued negotiations on the operationalisation of the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage during which parties continued to discuss the structure of #SantiagoNetwork including the potential for an advisory board, secretariat, focal points and network members.
3/14. Then as the World Leaders Summit began we heard from @antonioguterres the @UN Secretary-General who called for all governments to tax the windfall profits of #FossilFuel companies and redirect that money to countries suffering #LossAndDamage:
1/16. #COP27 officially began today with the ceremonial opening taking place in the plenary this morning and we have already seen significant developments on #LossAndDamage. Here is our summary on day one of #COP27. 🧵
2/16. After opening the COP the @COP27P announced that "Matters relating to funding arrangements responding to #LossAndDamage associated with the adverse effects of #ClimateChange, including a focus on addressing #LossAndDamage." would be a sub-agenda item under finance.
3/16. Following the announcement, the @COP27P president expressed that he welcomed the decision, before praising the tireless efforts of civil society, to whom he said we owe a “debt of gratitude” for constant pressure to act on #LossAndDamage finance:
3/10. Our reticular activating systems filter information and our expectations determine what information gets in and what stays out. Focusing on the good, literally brings more good.
2/17. The brief begins by making it clear that #LossAndDamage from #ClimateChange in a reality today in many African countries, despite the fact that Africa has contributed less than 4% of total carbon emissions.
1⃣ Tropical storm Ana which struck Malawi at the end of January, causing #flooding that resulted in 46 deaths, 152,786 people being displaced and extensive property destruction.
2/9 🇪🇬@UNFCCC#NDCs synthesis report:
📈The combined climate pledges of 193 Parties under the #ParisAgreement could put the world on track for around 2.5°C of warming by 2030.
💥#LossAndDamage escalates with with every increment of global warming💥