1/3 📣 NEGOTIATING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: ALPHA DJALON OF GUINEA 🇬🇳 💸 For communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis, inconsistent climate funding undermines long-term resilience-building while eroding trust between partners. 🧱
Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC)
@lossanddamage.bsky.social
Global network of 300+ decision-makers, researchers, lawyers, activists and artists working to support those impacted by #LossAndDamage from the #ClimateCrisis. https://www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/
1/3 📣 HIGH DEMAND, DANGEROUS SHORTFALL 📉 🏆 While #WorldCup fever is waning, the #ClimateCrisis rages on. 🌍 The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) faces overwhelming demands from climate-vulnerable communities. 🚨
1/5 📣 ONE YEAR AGO TODAY ✊ 🌏 Today marks one year since the International Court of Justice delivered its historic #AdvisoryOpinion on #ClimateChange, 🎂 bringing unprecedented legal clarity to States' obligations on climate change. 🕊️ #FromWordsToAction
1/4 📣 NEGOTIATING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: ELENA PEREIRA OF HONDURAS 🇭🇳 💼 For negotiators from the #GlobalSouth, long periods away, demanding schedules, and the weight of representing entire nations often mean families don't fully understand the pressures they carry.
1/4 📣 B9: DECISIONS DELAYED 😶 🥥 The ninth Board meeting (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, taking place in Manila, Philippines, is now over. 🇵🇭 🎠 Check out our highlights!
1/5 📣 FINAL STRETCH AT B9 IN MANILA 🕒 🇵🇭 The ninth Board meeting (#B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) is slowly wrapping up in Manila, Philippines! As we enter the closing hours, final decisions are still being discussed. 💬🗨️
1/5 📢 Day 3 of B9 kicked off with updates on accredited entities to other climate funds! 🌍 The Sec't shared a revised list incorporating recent Green Climate Fund additions. It was clarified that the Bank of Niger is no longer accredited to the Adaptation Fund before the decision was formalised. ✅
1/5 📣 DAY 3 & LAST OF THE 9TH BOARD MEETING OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE 🤝 🌀 As Board members & observers gather for Day 3 of #B9 of the FRLD in the #Philippines, Super Typhoon #Inday (#Bavi) is unleashing an unprecedented swell across the country’s eastern islands.
1/5 📣 BETWEEN CLOSED DOORS AND OPEN DISCUSSIONS ON DAY 2 OF FRLD B9 😶 🍐 We’re two-thirds through the Ninth Board meeting (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, taking place in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭
📣 RAISING THE COUNTRY SUPPORT SYSTEM AT B9 🪂 🇵🇭 The ninth meeting of the Board (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) is underway in Manila, Philippines, driving vital negotiations in part to operationalise the Country Support System (CSS).
1/3 📣 B9 EXPOSES THE MASSIVE LOSS AND DAMAGE FINANCE GAP 📉 🇵🇭 The ninth meeting of the Board (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) is currently underway in Manila, Philippines, driving intense negotiations to operationalise critical #ClimateFinance. 🗺️
1/5 📣 DAY 2 OF THE FRLD B9 🤝 💧 As Board members gather for the second day of the ninth Board meeting (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) in the Philippines, the country braces for the impacts of Super Typhoon Inday (Bavi) - just weeks after Typhoon Francisco (Mekkhala).
1/4 🥭 That’s a wrap on Day 1 of 3 of the Ninth Board meeting (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage taking place in Manila, Philippines 🇵🇭 📰 Didn’t have time to follow? Find our daily policy updates here: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/da...
1/5 📣 DAY 1 OF THE NINTH BOARD MEETING OF THE FUND FOR RESPONDING TO LOSS AND DAMAGE 🎉 💧 Good afternoon from humid Manila! The streets are bustling as Board members and observers gather for the first day of the ninth Board meeting (B9) of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD).🌍
1/2. 📣NEGOTIATING FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE: VICENTE PAOLO YU OF THE PHILIPPINES🇵🇭 💼Developing country negotiators face a stark dual reality. 🌍They must navigate a complex, technical landscape while witnessing the raw #ClimateCrisis on the frontlines they call home.🌪️
📸 WEEK 1 IN PICTURES 📸 🗣️From plenary halls to side events 🎤, from negotiations 🗯️ to demonstrations ✊, these are some of our highlights from the first week of #SB64.
1/3 🇿🇲 The eighth Board meeting (B8) of the Fund for responding to #LossAndDamage is meeting from April 22 to April 24 in Livingstone, Zambia. 🐘 We are on-site and online to track this critical convening. 🏛️ 📑 Our key messages for B8 are live: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...
Key Messages for the Eighth Meeting of the Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD B8)
By The Loss and Damage Collaboration
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⚡ BREAKING NEWS: ✊ 200+ organisations share an open letter 📩 demanding the Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) 🔥 put in place a #HumanRights-based plan to #FillTheFund 💰 with US$400 billion a year by 2035. ⏰ 📰 Press release: www.fillthefund.org/post/loss-da...
1/5 📣 PRIORITIES FOR THE SANTIAGO NETWORK THAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT 🛠️ ⛰️ This week, the Advisory Board (AB) of the Santiago Network on #LossAndDamage (SNLD) will gather 🤝 for its sixth meeting (#SNAB6) in #Geneva, Switzerland. 🇨🇭
1/10. 📢ITS TIME TO SPEAK UP 📢: On the 23rd of March ⏰ the Secretariat of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) will hold consultations 🗣️ on the draft plan to #FillTheFund 💰📈. 📢Here are 5️⃣ key demands that you can help to amplify! @canclimateaction.bsky.social @ciel.org
💼 On 12 February, the Advisory Board (AB) of the Santiago Network on #LossAndDamage 🛠️ met for an exceptional session to review its Rules of Procedure and Conflict of Interest Guidelines. 📃
💰 The latest round of negotiations for the #UNTaxConvention was held last week in #NewYork. 📷 This is a historic intl effort to establish a more inclusive global tax system by shifting the authority for setting intl tax standards from the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social to the United Nations. 1/3
‼️ Closing tomorrow! 📢 Join @lossanddamage.bsky.social as Senior Fundraising Lead! 📍Remote | 💼 Freelance | ⌛️ Full-time (4 days/week) 💷 £500/day | 🗓️ Start: 2 March 2026 💪Experience level: Minimum of 10 years experience 🔽Find out more about the role below 🔽
1/2. 📢 We’re hiring a Senior Fundraising Lead (#ClimateFinance & #LossAndDamage) to lead our resource mobilisation strategy, build strong relationships with philanthropic and institutional funders and secure financial resources to enable us to achieve our ambitious mission⤵️
1/8. 🗣️ The Board for the Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage (#FRLD) has appointed new Co-Chairs for the year ahead. Photos by IISD/ENB | Mike Muzurakis
1/2. 📢 We’re hiring a Senior Fundraising Lead (#ClimateFinance & #LossAndDamage) to lead our resource mobilisation strategy, build strong relationships with philanthropic and institutional funders and secure financial resources to enable us to achieve our ambitious mission⤵️
1/4. 🧐 As we look ahead to 2026, we asked three members of our team — our Global Lead (@rininreallife.bsky.social), Finance Lead Brenda Mwale, and Coordination Support Lead @mromdhane.bsky.social — what they hope the year will bring for #LossAndDamage and for the world we’re trying to build. 🌍
1/7. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: 📢Are you an expert on #LossAndDamage? 🤔Does your organisation, network or body work on #LossAndDamage caused by the #ClimateCrisis? 🔥🌊⛈️ 😎Then join the Santiago Network 🌐as a member! 🔗Find out how here: santiago-network.org/membership
1/7. ⚠️USEFUL INFO: The Santiago Network 🌐 has announced a 📢call for proposals to catalyse technical assistance 💪from organizations, bodies, networks and experts (OBNEs) in response to a request from the Cook Islands. ⏰Deadline: 1 February 2026 🔗Find out more: santiago-network.org/opportunitie...
1/17.⚠️USEFUL INFO: The Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage (FRLD) 🔥🌊⛈️ is now accepting funding requests 💰📩 under its start up phase— the Barbados Implementation Modalities (BIM). 🥳 🔗Find out more here: www.frld.org/nodebim
Just upping this call for papers at our hybrid @devcomms.bsky.social panel next year on Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge and authority. We have received excellent papers so far but are always interested in more! Deadline: 30.12 nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
P26: Epistemic ruptures in climate governance: Reimagining justice, knowledge, and authority
This panel explores how climate governance, through adaptation and Loss and Damage, reflects deep epistemic inequalities. It asks how knowledge, power, and justice intersect, and how reimagining gover...
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