The Resilience Academy was held in Frauenwörth Abbey on the Fraueninsel on Lake Chiemsee earlier this year. Organised by the Munich Re Foundation, the United Nations University-Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and ICCCAD, applications for the Resilience Academies run every two years with participants meeting the first year in Dhaka, Bangladesh and the second…
(This article was originally published on RTCC.org, available here). What is loss and damage? How does it work? And why do poor countries care so much? For many people this issue of ‘loss and damage’ seems to have come out of the blue and is still mired in confusion. At the nineteenth Conference of Parties…
I thought the field trip would be nice escape from my routine in Dhaka but I never imagined it would become an inspiration to my work on loss and damage. More often than not, loss and damage is perceived as a calculation of monetary impacts following an extreme event, and more controversially as a method…
The one-day workshop will be hosted by the Asia Pacific Forum on Loss and Damage and invites organizations conducting research or interested in conducting research on loss and damage. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the fourth annual Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum that will be held in Kuala Lumpur from 1-3 October…