The Co-Chairs of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) have just issued a revised document. It contains sections on mitigation, adaptation, finance, technology transfer and capacity building. The new ‘Draft Agreement’ comprises 26 articles on 9 pages that cover all the areas under negotiations. However, many …

Does the mandate of other international fora, in particular the WTO, limit the competence of the UNFCCC to review and possibly decide on measures for the introducing of a global levy on carbon majors to pay for loss and damage from climate change? If so, to what extent? Advice: 1. Introduction The UNFCCC and the […]

This Legal Response Initiative briefing paper focuses on the Warsaw International Mechanism for loss and damage associated with climate impacts, seeking to contribute to the discussion on possible elements of the Mechanism that might facilitate rehabilitation. Drawing upon existing international mechanisms in the environmental field through which redress …

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If and to what extent are countries responsible for loss and damage attributable to climate change legally obliged to provide compensation? What legal principles may help to keep the compensation issue ‘alive’? Loss and damage in the current negotiations The Conference of the Parties (COP) to UNFCCC, at its 18th session in Doha in 2012, …