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Mar 15 • 9 tweets • 9 min read

1/9. 🌀Devastating tropical #CycloneFreddy, which has made landfall twice 🤯, has caused #LossAndDamage in #Madagascar🇲🇬, #Mozambique 🇲🇿 and #Maliwi 🇲🇼 including 220+ deaths, whilst breaking records as the longest lasting cyclone.

2/9. In #Madagascar🇲🇬, at least 17 people have died due to #CycloneFreddy (7 from the first landfall on 21 February and 10 from the latest rains on 5 and 6 March), and nearly 299,000 people have affected.

3/9. In #Mozambique 🇲🇿, #CycloneFreddy has seen some provinces received as much rain in 24 hours as they would usually experience in one month. As a result 10 people have died and 14 have been injured, 1,900 houses have been damaged or destroyed.

@juliusngoma

4/9. In #Maliwi 🇲🇼, #CycloneFreddy has led to the loss of at least 111 people have lost their lives and some 19,000 people have been displaced in the hardest-hit districts and and nearly 299,000 people have been affected. 📼@juliusngoma

5/9. With the #ClimateCrisis making extreme weather events like #CycloneFreddy increasingly more intense and frequent, #LossAndDamage will continue to escalate as adaptation measures fail or are not able to be implemented.

6/9. Whilst #COP27's historic agreement to establish a #LossAndDamage Fund is much needed good news, the Fund is empty and yet to start working leaving impacted communities and to pay for the cost of rebuilding.

7/9. With the first meeting of the Transitional Committee of the #LossAndDamage Fund being held from the 27-29th of March in #Luxor, #Egypt 🇪🇬, Parties must focus on designing a fit-for-purpose #LossAndDamage Fund that gets to work urgently to address #LossAndDamage.

8/9. To find out more about record breaking #CycloneFreddy and its impacts read the following articles:

🔗reuters.com/world/africa/r…

🔗washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/0…

🔗aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/15…

🔗edition.cnn.com/2023/03/12/afr…

9/9. 🌊Find out more about #LossAndDamage here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/whatislossandd……

📼Find out why polluters including #FossilFuel companies must #PayUp4LossAndDamage by watching “This Is #LossAndDamage - Who Pays? here:

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1/13.⚡️USEFUL INFO⚡️: The @IPCC_CH is currently meeting at #IPCC58 to review and approve the #AR6 Synthesis Report and it's Summary for Policymakers, with released set for Monday the 20th of March.
More here: ipcc.ch/2023/03/13/ipc…

Why is this important for #LossAndDamage? 👇

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2/13. The #AR6 Synthesis Report and it's Summary for Policymakers will condense all of the scientific evidence from the reports of the @IPCC_CH working group's and all special reports published between 2018 and 2022.

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3/13. For example the @IPCC_CH #AR6 Working Group II report made the following key points on #LossAndDamage very clear:

1⃣Human-induced #ClimateChange has already caused #LossAndDamage to both nature and people;

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Feb 15

1/8. 🤯An eye-opening new tracker detailing the flight emissions✈️of the #SuperRich has been created by Akash Shendure a high school senior from Seattle in the U.S! But how do the emissions of the 1% relate to #LossAndDamage from the #ClimateCrisis?

🔗tinyurl.com/2p8pah9v

2/8. 📈Although there are many ways to measure responsibility for the #ClimateCrisis, no matter which way you do it's the richest countries🌐, people🎩 and polluting industries🏭 that come out on top. 👇

3/8. Between 1990 and 2015 the proportional #CO2 emission of the richest 1% of the world's population were 15%, whilst in the same period the richest 10% accounted for 52%.

🔗Source: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/co…

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Feb 13

@joeloyo

1/5.📰New article from @joeloyo of @ClimateHome News highlights that fewer than half the seats of the Transitional Committee of the #LossAndDamage Fund agreed at #COP27 have been filled with the potential to hold up work on releasing funds.

🔗Get it here: climatechangenews.com/2023/02/10/mis…

2/5. Although the deadline for negotiating blocs & Parties to nominate 24 committee members passed on the 15 December 2022, only ten members have been announced as of the of 31 January so we are waiting for 4 Developing and 10 Developed country Parties to make their nominations.

3/5. With the #COP27 decision indicating that the Transitional Committee should have its first meeting by 31 March and lots of organisational matters that need to be agreed before work can start, this delay leaves even less time for the committee to get it work done for #COP28.

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Feb 13

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1/6. 📜NEW PAPER: "Vulnerability and #LossAndDamage following the #COP27 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (@UNFCCC )" from @ccadapt and @angus_naylor looking at how #LossAndDamage intersects with vulnerability thinking.

🔗Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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2/6. The paper highlights how although the creation of a Transitional Committee to operationalise funding for #LossAndDamage at #COP27 could prove a seminal moment for the @UNFCCC...

3/6. In the context of #LossAndDamage and wider climate financing, discourses of vulnerability and mechanisms and indices for appraising the impacts of #ClimateChange remain unfit for purpose.

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Jan 19

@vanessa_vash

1/9.⚡️BREAKING⚡️: This morning @vanessa_vash, @GretaThunberg , @luisaneubauer and @SumakHelena spoke at the World Economic Forum (#wef23) in @Davos about and open letter to #FossilFuel CEO's —signed by 850k+ people— calling on them to end the fossil expansion.

2/9. This letter is a Cease and Desist Notice is to demand that #FossilFuel CEO's immediately stop opening any new #Oil, #Gas, or #Coal extraction sites, and stop blocking the clean energy transition that is urgently need.

3/9. The letter highlights that #FossilFuel companies KNEW for decades that fossil fuels cause catastrophic #ClimateChange. That they MISLED the public about #ClimateScience and risks (#LossAndDamage) and
DECEIVED politicians with disinformation sowing doubt and causing delay.

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Jan 18

@dailystarnews

1/12. In his latest @dailystarnews op-ed @SaleemulHuq of @ICCCAD explores the "The who's and how's of allocating #LossAndDamage funds" as we look towards the long road to #COP28.

🔗Read it here: thedailystar.net/opinion/views/…

2/12. Key points include:

1⃣ That although #LossAndDamage costs run will into trillions of US $'s, in the short term focusing on getting a few tens of billions of US $'s a year to support the poorest and most vulnerable communities would be wise.

3/12. 2⃣ Funds to address #LossAndDamage don't necessarily need to come from governments they could come from countries imposing a tax on every fossil fuel company registered in their jurisdiction.

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