Loss and Damage, Climate Victims, and International Climate Law

Looking Back, Looking Forward

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4610165
AutoresPamela Toussaint (0000-0003-1314-4946, University of Eastern Finland, autor de correspondencia), Patrick Toussaint
Año2024
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas134-159
Fecha de publicación2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransnational Environmental Law (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2047-1025 • E-ISSN: 2047-1033
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s2047102523000237
OpenAlexW4389307888
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias 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