Turning climate justice into practice? Channeling loss and damage funding through national social protection systems in climate‐vulnerable countries

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ID12929409
AutoresJona Huber (0000-0002-9389-3690, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway), Una Murray (0000-0002-1038-0313, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume15
Fascículo2
Data de publicação2023-11-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/wcc.867
OpenAlexW4388455246
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas61

Despite the last‐minute breakthrough agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 to provide funding for climate‐related loss and damage for vulnerable countries, distribution mechanisms and funding sources remain up for debate. With rapid‐onset climate impacts intensifying and slow‐onset impacts further manifesting, loss and damage from climate change is already occurring. Thus, quick, effective, and transparent distribution of upcoming funds is necessary. Currently, only a tiny fraction of existing sources of climate finance reaches affected communities, commonly marked by high levels of poverty and low levels of adaptive capacity. Similarly, donor‐based global humanitarian aid and development systems are buckling under the weight of increasing demand. As increasing climate impacts threaten to reverse development gains of the last decades, climate‐sensitive social protection has received increasing attention for its potential to address climate impacts and to strengthen the adaptive capacity and resilience of climate‐vulnerable populations. This review article explores the prospects of channeling Loss and Damage funding through existing national social protection systems and highlights how this approach can efficiently contribute to safeguarding development gains, including previously overlooked aspects such as noneconomic loss and damage (NELD), while also dismantling soft adaptation barriers and thus fostering climate resilience in the long term. Although we identify barriers, including gaps in coverage of social protection systems both between and within countries, we argue that channeling some L&D funding through social protection systems aligns with core human rights and climate justice agendas, as well as the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities . This article is categorized under: Integrated Assessment of Climate Change > Assessing Climate Change in the Context of Other Issues Policy and Governance > International Policy Framework Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

Adaptive capacity · Business · Climate change · Climate justice · Climate resilience · Development economics · Economics · Environmental resource management · Natural resource economics · Political economy of climate change · Political science · Poverty · Psychological resilience · Safeguarding · Social protection · Agricultural risk and resilience · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Energy and Environment Impacts · Law · Ecology