Submissions on the information sources related to averting, minimizing and addressing non-economic losses

The submissions below are received in response to a call for interest to contribute to the development of a knowledge product by the Expert Group on Non-economic losses of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage Executive Committee. The knowledge product aims to serve as an update to the 2013 technical paper on non-economic losses.

The call for inputs sought literature or information sources that contain lessons learned specifically on the following:

Policies and planning for prevention and responding to non-economic losses;
Undertaking action on the ground to respond to non-economic losses at different levels;
Practical examples of using tools and methods for assessing non-economic losses.

Submitter	Information received	Date received
Global Centre for Climate Mobility	African Shifts: The Africa Climate Mobility Report, Addressing Climate-Forced Migration & Displacement Set of 7 case studies & field research	6 April 2023
International Union for Conservation of Nature	IUCN World Heritage Outlook 3 IUCN World Heritage Outlook 2 IUCN World Heritage Outlook World Heritage Glaciers: Sentinels of Climate Change Disappearing World Heritage Glaciers as a Keystone of Nature Conservation in a Changing Climate Adapting to climate change: Guidance for protected area managers and planners Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation Planning Tool (CC-RAPT) developed by the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) Climate Change Specialist Group	19 April 2023
	Policies and planning for prevention and response
	NWF's Guide to Climate Smart conservation IUCN SSC Guidelines for Assessing Species’ Vulnerability to Climate Change Climate change vulnerability assessment of species Climate Change Vulnerability Index Assessing protected area vulnerability to climate change in a case study of South African national parks	21 April 2023
	Different levels of response on the ground
	Shifting the conservation paradigm: a synthesis of options for renovating nature under climate change Application of a trait-based climate change vulnerability assessment to determine management priorities at protected area scale WWF-US Wildlife Adaptation Innovation Fund	21 April 2023
Loss and Damage Collaboration	Submitted Information	11 April 2023
Platform on Disaster Displacement, Loss and Damage Collaboration	Human mobility and non-economic loss and damage Documents analyzed An overview chart with some synthetic information on the documents	19 April 2023
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme	Case study: Tropical Cyclone Evan – Samoa Case study: Non-Economic Loss & Damage to Vanuatu’s Coastal Ecosystems and Community Livelihoods from Slow Onset Events to support the design and operationalization of the Loss & Damage Fund Case study: The Development of Fiji’s National Planned Relocation Arrangements and Associated Financing Mechanism	4 May 2023
United Nations Development Programme	Turning The Tide on Internal Displacement: A Development Approach to Solutions, which includes UNDP’s approach to human mobility. UNDP’s Post-Disaster Needs Assessment methodology that facilitates extensive local consultations and site examinations. Toolkit for value chain analysis and market development integrating climate resilience and gender responsiveness that seeks to capture NELs (or conditions for) from resilience and gender perspectives and looks at the cross-sectoral aspects. Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific: An Integrated Approach to Address Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management that provides high-level strategic guidance to different stakeholder groups on how to enhance resilience to climate change and disasters in ways that contribute to, and are embedded in, sustainable development.	18 April 2023
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights	Human Rights and Loss and Damage: Key messages	4 April 2024
University of Washington	The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels	20 April 2023
World Food Programme	Climate loss and damage: practical action (submitted on behalf of the Scottish government)	14 April 2023
World Food Programme	Preserving Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritage through resilience building in Bolivia Restoring ecosystems to build resilience to climate shocks in Malawi	20 April 2023