Strengthening National Responses to Loss and Damage – A Practical Guide

This guideline provides a high-level, practice-informed resource for countries seeking to strengthen national responses to loss and damage.

It synthesizes current concepts, evidence, policy debates, and emerging good practices, and offers an overarching framework to support reflection on, scoping, and refinement of national loss and damage strategies and related processes.

Rather than prescribing a single blueprint or detailed step-by-step procedures, it highlights key issues, choices, and illustrative options that policymakers and practitioners can adapt to their own institutional, socio-economic, and environmental contexts.

The guide is complemented by a Practitioners Brief available here.

This publication was developed by the UNEP Copenhagen Climate Centre with funding from UNEP’s
Adaptation and Resilience Branch.

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