Loss and Damage, Climate Victims, and International Climate Law

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4610165
AutoresPamela Toussaint (0000-0003-1314-4946, University of Eastern Finland, autor correspondente), Patrick Toussaint
Ano2024
Volume13
Fascículo1
Páginas134-159
Data de publicação2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTransnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s2047102523000237
OpenAlexW4389307888
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas26

After more than three decades of negotiations, the international response to climate change under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) appears to have come full circle. At COP27, parties to the UNFCCC agreed to establish a multilateral fund to address loss and damage from global temperature rise, an idea that was initially put forward by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) in the early 1990s. Employing a historical critique, which draws upon archival and doctrinal research and interviews with key informants who participated in the early days of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change, this article examines the AOSIS proposal in its wider historical context, and provides reflections for the renewed endeavour to negotiate a multilateral fund on loss and damage, in particular with a view to achieving justice for climate victims

Alliance · Climate change · Climate justice · Conference of the parties · Convention · Geography · Global warming · Kyoto Protocol · Loss and damage · Negotiation · Political economy · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Small Island Developing States · Sociology · United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Engineering · Environmental law and policy · Law · Transboundary Water Resource Management