Loss And Damage
Loss and damage refers to the dangerous and hard hitting effects of climate change that are often irreversible and unavoidable. These effects are from extreme weather events and disruptions of the climate system that negatively affect human communities or the natural world causing damage of one kind or another, or loss of both life and property. The nature of the harm caused is that it is permanent and cannot be undone and what is lost is irretrievable. Loss and damage occurs at the end point of adaptation. It simply means the effects of climate change that cannot be prevented by adaptation. It is when adaptation is no longer applicable due to lack of technical know-how, inadequate resources, insufficient capacity, or the political climate does not allow for it. Loss and damage can be experienced in varied ways. Slow onset events are climate caused events that build up slowly over a space of time. They include droughts and increasing desertification affecting agricultural l...