Thread by @LossandDamage

1/25. Today is the ninth day of the #BonnClimateConference (#SB58) and it saw the continuation of discussions on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage, a number of excellent side events, and importantly the adoption of the agenda. Here are some of our highlights!🧵

2/25. This morning kicked off with three #LossAndDamage side events happening at the same time! Sadly we could not get to them all, but the good news is that there are webcasts with which to revisit them.

3/25. They included: "#HumanRights, #ClimateChange and disaster induced migration and #Displacement: Regional Perspectives" with @UUSC, @esperance_ong, @ALIANZAAMERICAS.

📼See the webcast here:

4/25. "Imagining just futures" with @larutadelclima , @Oxfam , @Climate_INTL , and more.

📼See the webcast here:

5/25. And the one we did get to, "Ensuring the #LossAndDamage Fund delivers for climate-impacted communities" with @ActionAid, @CANIntl, @christian_aid, and @Act_Svk.

📼See the webcast here:

6/25. During the event we heard important messages on what the Transitional Committee of the #LossAndDamage Fund agreed at #COP27 must do and how the #LossAndDamage Fund and Funding Arrangements must be operationalised to ensure a successful outcome at #COP28.

7/25. Moderated by @1TeresaAnderson of @ActionAid the event started with a positive message: “#COP27 was a momentous moment, a moving moment, for many of us it felt like the @UNFCCC was finally starting to help people affected by the #ClimateCrisis”.

8/25. After which we heard other important messages including from @Mariana_Paoli of @christian_aid...

9/25. “For a successful #COP28 outcome, we must ensure that the #LossAndDamage Fund delivers new, additional, predictable, and adequate finance, covers the whole spectrum of #LossAndDamage, rapid and slow onset events, and recovery and reconstruction.” @Mariana_Paoli

10/25. “It is the responsibility of developed countries to raise the revenue [required to address #LossAndDamage]. The ways that they could do this include through wealth taxation, taxing #FossilFuel profits, a solidarity levy, and more. @Mariana_Paoli

11/25. @Mart1nKrenn of @koo_at: “The @theGCF spends less than a 1/4 of its money on priorities for local communities. There are notoriously long times for accreditation…In our view the GCF is not the model for the #LossAndDamage Fund.”

12/25. @Amb_AdaoBarbosa of @LDCChairUNFCCC and Transitional Committee member for Timor-Leste 🇹🇱 who explained the @LDCChairUNFCCC proposal for the windows of the #LossAndDamage Fund.

📜Read it here: unfccc.int/sites/default/…

13/25. “We proposed 3 windows for the #LossAndDamage Fund, a response window addressing extreme events with triggers, a 2nd window for recovery and rehabilitation for after disasters, and a last window for slow onset events.” @Amb_AdaoBarbosa

14/25. @Amb_AdaoBarbosa then highlighted what the #LossAndDamage Fund should address, including existing ongoing #LossAndDamage, #LossAndDamage from extreme events and slow onset events, economic and non-economic #LossAndDamage and rehabilitation, recovery and reconstruction.

15/25. Where the Fund should be set up: “For the @LDCChairUNFCCC, the #LossAndDamage Fund should be a stand alone Fund under the Financial Mechanism of the @UNFCCC, accountable to the CMA and COP.”

16/25. And the importance of direct rapid dispersal and direct access: “Direct access and quickness is critical. We don't need bureaucratic issues. Quick dispersal of funds from the #LossAndDamage Fund is critical for the Least Developed Countries.”

17/25. We then heard from @harjeet11 of @CANIntl who stressed that “when we talk about the #LossAndDamage Fund, we talk about scale, speed and access, it is important to remember these words.”

18/25. And that “it is important to recognise that we are talking about lost development, not development. #LossAndDamage is to recover from disasters, loans can't be the answer, it is fundamentally immoral to ask affected communities to pay for their own recovery.” @harjeet11

19/25. This afternoon the side event “The #BridgetownInitiative – Fit to Finance #ClimateJustice?” with @rosaluxnyc, @IWRAW_AP, @globalpolicy, @larutadelclima and more, also took place. We highly recommend it!

📼See the webcast here:

20/25. Today Parties and groups coordinated amongst themselves on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage with of focus on who they see hosting the secretariat of the #SantiagoNetwork—either @UNDRR + @UNOPS or @Caribank.

21/25. This evening another informal consultation is scheduled but we understand that the G77 and China do not yet have a common position on who will host the #SantiagoNetwork, therefore the meeting may not take place.

22/25. This evening saw the agenda for the #BonnClimateConference (#SB58) finally adopted with the exception of the #MitigationWorkProgramme, the work from which will be captured in an informal note.

🔗Watch the Plenary here: unfccc-events.azureedge.net/SB58_93188/age…

23/25. This means that work of the last two weeks, including on the #SantiagoNetwork for #LossAndDamage will be taken forward to #COP28.

🔗Want to know why there was an agenda fight? See here (its all to do with #ClimateFinance): climatechangenews.com/2023/06/13/un-…

24/25. Tomorrow is the last day of the #BonnClimateConference and at some point we will see a closing plenary take place. There is no time set for the Plenary yet on the @UNFCCC CCTV system so stay tuned for updates.

25/25. 🔴For the latest updates on #LossAndDamage make sure to check out our #SB58 Master Document: docs.google.com/document/d/1Xz……

📜Read our #SB58 expectations brief here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/lo……

📰Also in blog form here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/pages/loss-and…