Chapter 11: Loss and Damage

Recommended materials

Saleemul Huq, Erin Roberts & Adrian Fenton, “Loss and damage” (2013) 3:11 Nature Climate Change 947

Ivo Wallimann-Helmer, “Justice for climate loss and damage” (2015) 133:3 Climatic Change 469

Mike Hulme, “Attributing Weather Extremes to ‘Climate Change’: A Review” (2014) 38:4 Progress in Physical Geography 499

Supplementary materials

Emma Lees, “Responsibility and liability for climate loss and damage after Paris” (2017) 17:1 Climate Policy 59

Benoit Mayer, “Whose ‘Loss and Damage’? Promoting the Agency of Beneficiary States” (2014) 4:3-4 Climate Law 267

Latest materials

Human Rights Committee, Ioane Teitiota case

https://tbinternet.ohchr.org/_layouts/15/treatybodyexternal/Download.aspx?symbolno=CCPR%2fC%2f127%2fD%2f2728%2f2016&Lang=en  

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Benjamin et al, ‘An ‘Islands’ COP’? Loss and damage at COP23’

forthcoming in Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/reel.12255?af=R

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In the news

“Climate refugees can’t be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/20/climate-refugees-cant-be-returned-home-says-landmark-un-human-rights-ruling  

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“Not a silver bullet: Why the focus on insurance to address loss and damage is a distraction from real solutions”

An interesting, critical perspective on the role of insurances in addressing the impacts of climate change. http://us.boell.org/2018/08/30/not-silver-bullet   

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Large area of China could soon be virtually uninhabitable as deadly heatwaves become more intense, scientists warn

"Research adds to body of evidence showing heat-related deaths around world will increase dramatically in coming decades" https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/heatwave-china-climate-change-carbon-emissions-greenhouse-gas-tropics-mit-a8471751.html?utm_source=EHN&utm_campaign=12f2a40331-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8573f35474-12f2a40331-99406733

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