1/19. 📜It’s day eight and the first day of the second week of #COP27 and here is our #LossAndDamage focused daily thread. Today saw the launch of the #G7’s #GlobalShield Against Climate Risks, negotiations on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage and #LossAndDamage finance.🧵 Image
2/19. Today was #Gender & #Water Day at #COP27 and there were many events that profiled the importance of #Gender responsive #ClimateAction. At @CaninT’s press briefing we heard from @lntongai of @ActionAid_Kenya how #LossAndDamage impacts women in Kenya.
3/19. Today #Germany with the @V20_Group launched the #G7’s #GlobalShield Against Climate Risks with speeches from @SvenjaSchulze68 and @JohnKerry that emphasised that it “can provide effective support to countries as they seek to avert, minimise, and address losses and damages".
4/19. However, civil society was quick to point out that because much of the #GlobalShield seems to be reliant on providing subsidised insurance —which is not suited to addressing #LossAndDamage— it will do little to support those on the front lines of the #ClimateCrisis.
5/19. In our own blog, @jar_climate asked "Is the #GlobalShield about progress or distraction?" on a political decision to deliver a #LossAndDamage finance at #COP27? Whilst highlighting the inadequacies of climate insurance.

🔗Read it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/pages/global-s… Image
6/19. Whereas @harjeet11 of @CANIntl provided a list of 8 questions that #ClimateJournalists should be asking about the #GlobalShield to ascertain that it really is going to offer needs-based support to those on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis.

7/19. And @RachelCleetus of the Union of Concerned Scientists (@UCSUSA) highlighted that while “The #GlobalShield…has some useful elements…it's no substitute for a #LossAndDamage Finance Facility.” (operating entity for addressing #LossAndDamage...) Image
8/19. This afternoon the @COP27P held a consultation on the governance of the Warsaw International Mechanism for #LossAndDamage (WIM).
9/19. During the consultation, the G77 & China and many of its sub-groups stressed that the WIM was established under the COP (Conference of the Parties - the supreme decision-making body of the @UNFCCC) and is therefore under the authority and guidance of the COP.
10/19. Developing countries argued that while Article 8 of the #ParisAgreement provided that the WIM was also subject to the guidance of the CMA*, it did not change the mandate of the COP and that if sole governance was intended, it would have been articulated.
11/19. Whereas, developed countries argued that Article 8 provides that the WIM is subject to the authority and guidance of the CMA and that their understanding is that this is a sole governance arrangement.
12/19. The @COP27P Presidency proposed to defer the decision on the governance of the WIM to future COPs and have mirror decisions at #COP27 under the WIM. There were no objections from the room and this is therefore the agreed way forward.
13/19. *The CMA (the meeting of the Parties to the #ParisAgreement), oversees the implementation of the #ParisAgreement.

🔗See here for a useful introduction to COP, CMA and all other @UNFCCC acronyms:
unfccc.int/process-and-me…
14/19. In the negotiations on “matters related to funding arrangements to address #LossAndDamage” the co-facilitators released an elements paper to capture areas of divergence and convergence amongst Parties just before the informal negotiation began.

🔗unfccc.int/sites/default/… Image
15/19. With the text out and the informal underway, developing countries indicated that they did not see their proposal calling for the establishment of an “operating entity under the financial mechanism of the @UNFCCC" at #COP27 reflected.
16/19. Developing countries also noted that proposed solutions are mainly more “technical workshops” and “dialogues” —like the #SuvaExpertDialogue of 2018 or #GlasgowDialogue of 2022— and that they have repeatedly called for action, not more “talk shops”.
18/19. Negotiations continue tomorrow on “matters related to funding arrangements to address #LossAndDamage”. The informal on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage (SNLD) is scheduled for 5 pm tomorrow and we expect the SNLD text to be finalised tomorrow.
19/19. 📜Find out more about #LossAndDamage at #COP27 below:

🚨Live doc with the latest on L&D: docs.google.com/document/d/1Q9…

📸#LossAndDamage cheat sheet for journalists: docs.google.com/document/d/1aO…

🧑‍🎓And learn more about #LossAndDamage here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/whatislossandd… Image

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1/13.📜NEW BLOG: A new blog by members of @LossandDamage explains where the phrase “mosaic of solutions” comes from and how it captures the need to mobilise action and support on all fronts (both inside & outside the @UNFCCC) to address #LossAndDamage.

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2/13. The phrase “mosaic of solutions” was first used by the #Maldives —one of the nations most vulnerable to the impacts of the #ClimateCrisis— in September to capture the need to mobilise action and support on all fronts to address #LossAndDamage that is happening now.
3/13. However, in the #LossAndDamage Finance negotiations at #COP27 the term has been used by developed countries to stress the need to focus on solutions outside the @UNFCCC such as the #GlobalShield Against Climate Risk.
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1/4.⚡️BREAKING⚡️: The text on the institutional arrangements to operationalize the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage to provide technical assistance to countries and communities impacted by #LossAndDamage has now been agreed by all Parties at #COP27. Image
2/4.The room erupted into applause at the news and Parties said they look forward to the #SantiagoNetwork delivering much needed technical assistance to people and communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis.
3/4. #Humanrights are indirectly mentioned in the text and impacted communities are represented on the Advisory Board and when Parties and observers heard that #Indigenous people were specifically included there was more applause!
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1/20.📜It’s day nine and the second day of the second week of #COP27 and here is our #LossAndDamage focused daily thread. Today we have seen a #PayUp4LossAndDamage action and negotiations on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage and on funding arrangements for #LossAndDamage.🧵 Image
2/20.This morning, @anuahsa, The #Maldives Minister of Environment, #ClimateChange & Technology, spoke to youths at the @CYPavilion to stress the need for a “mosaic of solutions” to address #LossAndDamage including an operating entity under the financial mechanism of the @UNFCCC. Image
3/20. “We do need a “mosaic of solutions” to address #LossAndDamage. But first and foremost, we need to establish a dedicated funding facility under the @UNFCCC system, where all parties have equal equitable access, and predictable access, to #LossAndDamage finance.” @anuahsa Image
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1/18.📜NEW BLOG: We have seen quite a few pledges that have been framed as “finance for #LossAndDamage”. But are they really? This blog provides an overview of all the pledges thus far at #COP27 in chronological order.

🔗Read it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/pages/festival… Image
2/18. On the 20th of September, #Denmark🇩🇰 pledged €13m for #LossAndDamage, a package which includes finance for the #GlobalShield Against Climate Risk, support for CSOs to do projects on the ground, and some other money that is yet to be allocated for a specific use.
3/18. Crucially, all of this money is new and on top of #Denmark’s 🇩🇰 0.7% commitment to ODA, therefore not a diversion of cash from other vital #ClimateFinance projects.
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1/4.“We do need a “mosaic of solutions” to address #LossAndDamage. But first and foremost, we need to establish a dedicated funding facility under the @UNFCCC system, where all parties have equal equitable access, and predictable access, to #LossAndDamage finance.”@anuahsa #COP27 Image
2/4. "Secondly we need to be able to address the slow-onset impacts of #ClimateChange. And Thirdly we need to be able to capture what is happening outside [the @UNFCCC] and bring it into this process, for example, what's happening with the NDBs and IFIs."
3/4. "And to start thinking of innovative ways to start funding #LossAndDamage, because we know that funding for #LossAndDamage does not need to come only from public sources, but it also needs to come from the private sector and #Philanthropies."
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3/26. Based in Ouagadougou Adama is following #LossAndDamage for Burkina Faso at #COP27 and is supported by @Irish_Aid through @IIED.
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