Type: Open

Format: Moderated panel discussions with webcast. Watch the panel discussion on demand

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Description: 

Countries face an evolving landscape of climate impacts and risks while striving towards sustainable, climate‐resilient development. Comprehensively averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with climate change impacts requires a forward‐looking and long‐term perspective which takes into account the incremental and cumulative nature of some of the impacts.

Averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with extreme weather events and slow onset events encompasses a wide array of data, information, knowledge, technology, capacity-building and finance.

Since its inception in 2013, the Warsaw International Mechanism has been the vehicle under the UNFCCC for in promoting the implementation of approaches to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts in a comprehensive, integrated and coherent manner.

This special informational event on loss and damage is convened by the Chairs of the Subsidiary Bodies and aims to provide an overview of how the established arrangements under the Warsaw International Mechanism work together to complement existing efforts to respond to the urgency of enhancing the mobilization of action and support, including finance, technology and capacity-building, for developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change for averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage associated with the adverse effects of climate change. 

Practitioners across regions will share insights from current practices undertaken to comprehensively avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts. 

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