Although the proposal for the Loss and Damage Fund was adopted at COP27, the declaration to operationalise it came at COP28.

The COP28 will be held in Dubai, in the UAE, from November 30 till December 12.

One of the outcomes of the COP26 held in United Kingdom’s Glasgow in November, 2021 was a decision to hold a series of three annual Glasgow Dialogues on funding to address Loss and Damage, with each dialogue to be held in Bonn at the annual pre-COP event.

What we called mitigation before is now better described as averting or avoiding loss and damage

Bangladesh is at the forefront of having to tackle climate change out of necessity, so we cannot avoid learning how to do so.

How are we going to deal with all the evolving climate issues, and what kind of finance is needed for that?

We cannot continue to allow wealthy countries to externalise the damage of their pollution spree.