Losses and damages are increasingly a reality, and country governments, local officials and international actors are seeking to respond. This translates into rapidly developing institutional landscapes and processes for assessing and addressing losses and damages – across local to global levels; state- and non-state actors; and topics of data and reporting, institutional coordination, capacity building, and participatory processes.
Understanding these diverse developments, and related opportunities and gaps, will be essential for relevant institutional development and support.
This joint DIIS and UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre webinar shares new knowledge from a collaboration between DIIS and UNEP CCC with funding from DANIDA. We present findings on Somalia, Vanuatu and Vietnam – countries with diverse development and institutional contexts as well as climate challenges – and initial reflections from Mauritius, one of three upcoming case countries including Zambia and India.
Speakers
Lily Salloum Lindegaard is a Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies and a lead author of the upcoming IPCC Seventh Assessment Report. Her work focuses on the governance of climate impacts and response in diverse settings in the Global South, including adaptation, loss and damage, and transformational change related to rural livelihoods, development and human mobility.
Fatemeh Bakhtiari is a Senior Advisor at the United Nations Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-CCC) where she plays a key role in the Centre’s work on loss and damage, focusing on non-economic impacts, strengthening governance and institutional arrangements for L&D reporting, and supporting vulnerable groups, while helping countries integrate loss and damage into national policies. She specialises in climate policy, resilience, mitigation, sustainability assessment, and environmental valuation.
Marie Stéphania Perrine is a climate and development specialist from Mauritius, with experience across adaptation, project management, and capacity-building in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). A former UNFCCC CAPACITY Fellow, Chevening Scholar, and EU-COMESA Scholar, she brings a transdisciplinary background in climate policies, intergovernmental processes, knowledge management, education and community-led
Programme
11:00-11:05 Introduction, Lily Salloum Lindegaard
11:05-11:15 Linking to international efforts, Fatemeh Bakhtiari
11:15-11:30 Initial findings from Somalia, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Lily Salloum Lindegaard
11:30-11:35 Perspectives from Mauritius, Marie Stéphania Perrine
11:35-11:55 Q&A
11:55-12:00 Takeaways, Lily Salloum Lindegaard