Loss and damage related to climate change: connotations and response mechanism |
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Authors: | Xin Ma Xiaojia He Wentao Wang Shuo Liu Qinzhu Gao |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Environmental and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science, Beijing 100081, China;2. Agricultural Environment and Climate Change Key Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100081, China;3. The Office of Global Environment, The Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21, Beijing 100038, China |
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Abstract: | Global mitigative and adaptive efforts have not been able to effectively address the adverse impacts caused by climate change. Therefore, a direct solution is needed to address the significant resulting loss and damage (L&D). During the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change held in Doha in 2012, the issue of responding to L&D arising from climate change gained sudden traction and became one of the key issues that affected the outcome of the convention. In this paper, a study on the definition and connotations of L&D arising from climate change was conducted, together with an analysis of its relationship with related concepts, namely impacts, vulnerability, and risks. This led to the proposal of an L&D conceptual model that is more comprehensive, with the recognition of the need to address the issue through effective supplementation of existing mitigative and adaptive efforts. A systematic elaboration of an L&D response mechanism was made based on politics, law, and the market, leading to a preliminary presentation of a possible format for an L&D mechanism. Potential academic research directions for L&D were also proposed that could serve as references for the establishment of international and national L&D response mechanisms and related research. |
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Keywords: | climate change loss and damage connotations response mechanism |
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