What Does Loss and Damage Mean at the Country Level? A Global Mapping Through Nationally Determined Contributions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12754128 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Calliari (0000-0002-8075-558X, Medical Protective, corresponding author), Ben Ryder (0009-0005-4113-3357, Medical Protective) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 71-94 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1526-3800 • E-ISSN: 1536-0091 |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/glep_a_00725 |
| OpenAlex | W4385490972 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
By analyzing the way climate change loss and damage (L&D) is framed in nationally determined contributions (NDCs), this article investigates how parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change make sense of the concept. Building on an original database of 313 active and archived NDCs, we employ frame analysis to identify the countries that mention L&D in these documents; map how they frame it, both in terms of the types of impacts that are relevant for the national context and the responses that are planned or adopted; and explore how this has changed over time. We find that L&D is not perceived as a “small islands issue” anymore and that a growing number of middle- and high-income countries are referring to the concept in their NDCs. We also observe increasing levels of specificity about the types of economic and noneconomic L&D incurred or projected and about national responses, including those focused on knowledge generation, institutional arrangements, and sectoral adaptation measures. Theoretically, the article advances understandings of how national policy actors translate the ill-defined L&D global agenda for the national level. At the same time, it illustrates how they attempt to shape it by advancing nationally informed L&D framings, therefore hinting toward an emerging “two-level ideational game” in this area of global governance
Climate change · Context (archaeology · Convention · Corporate governance · Economics · Geography · Global governance · Political science · Public economics · Regional science · Sociology · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Law · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance · Finance
Loss and damage
Latin America in the climate change negotiations
Nationally Determined Contributions
Population growth, family planning and the Paris Agreement
Countries start to explain how their climate contributions are fair
Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations
The Elusive Governance of Climate Change
Loss and damage
A discursive cartography of nationally determined contributions to the Paris climate agreement
Governing people on the move in a warming world
Mapping states’ Paris climate pledges
Making sense of the politics in the climate change loss & damage debate
Diplomacy and domestic politics
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change
Climate Change 2022 - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Framing
One thousand ways to experience loss
Exploring the framing power of NGOs in global climate politics
The knowledge politics of climate change loss and damage across scales of governance
Framing Processes and Social Movements
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |