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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Clarke, Richard H
• Wescombe, Noah J
• Huq, Saleemul
• Khan, Mizan
• Kramer, Bert
• Lombardi, Domenico

Titel

Climate loss-and-damage funding: a mechanism to make it work

Ist Teil von

• Nature (London), 2023-11, Vol.623 (7988), p.689-692

Ort / Verlag

England: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Rather than ma king assessments on an event-by-event basis after damage has been caused, a global loss-and-damage fund needs to assess in advance which areas will be most hit by climate-change impacts, guided by models of physical risks. There are three key steps: assessing how much climate change is affecting loss and damage in locations around the world; devising fair criteria for calculating payments to cope with the effects of global heating; and developing a trusted mechanism for managing the fund. Weather monitoring will need to be funded around the globe to support loss-and-damage calculations, as well as early warning systems and nowcasting (local forecasts up to six hours in advance) to limit damage and casualties. [...]long-term trends in economicsand emissions should be built into the mechanism, to allow for economic changes and the cascading impacts of disasters.