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Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC)
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Global network of 300+ decision-makers, researchers, lawyers, activists and artists working to support those impacted by #LossAndDamage from the #ClimateCrisis.

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5/5. 🔴Stay tuned for more updates and analysis following todays negotiations on guidance to the FRLD.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
4/5. ⏰💸On rapid disbursement and community access / small grants. No expedition of work to develop long term policies. Just welcoming this work in the Board's work plan. 📢The Fund needs to be able to repond quickly ⏰ and directly to communities 🧑‍🌾 in 2026.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
3/5. 😡Only converting pledges into contributions is included, no call to developed countries to #FillTheFund with the 400 billion USD it needs each year. No call to developed countries to #PayUp4LossAndDamage.
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
2/5.Para 16 (and others) of the 1/CMA 6 decision on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (#NCQG) is included but in brackets. This para is on a significant increase of public resources is provided through FRLD and flows are at least tripled by 2030. We need this to help #FillTheFund
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
21/21. 🎯See our key messages for #COP30 here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/ke...

📋See all our #COP30 resources here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/conferences-...

😎Join us at #COP30!
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
20/21. 🌅Today we expect negotiations to continue on the third review of the WIM and possibly on the report of the Board of the FRLD. ✊ An updated list of all the days events and negotiations relevant to #LossAndDamage will be provided in our daily updates document. 🗓️
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
19/21. 💸The technical guide on accessing finance for averting, minimizing, and addressing the impacts of displacement associated with climate change impacts: unfccc.int/documents/64...

🚨 The compendium on risk management approaches v2: unfccc.int/compendium-o...
unfccc.int
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
18/21. 🧠WIM ExCom: Three key knowledge products that were finalised in 2025:

🌊The technical guide on sea level rise: unfccc.int/technical-gu...
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
17/21. 🔗Santiago Network: The Santiago Network is fully operational and open for technical assistance requests. 👏 Countries and communities can make requests here: portal.santiago-network.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
16/21. 💰FRLD: The Fund is accepting funding requests of between 5-20 million USD from governments. Proposals can and should include national arrangement for small grants to communities and rapid disbursal of funds.

🔗Find out how to make a funding request from the FRLD here: frld.org/nodebim
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
15/21. 📰During the event we heard updates from the Co-Chairs 🗣️ of the FRLD, the ExCom and the Santiago Networks Advisory Board. Here is one key messages from each of them:
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
14/21.The event provided an opportunity to look at how the ExCom (the brain of the #LossAndDamage support landscape), the #SantiagoNetwork (the connector) and the FRLD (the wallet) can better collaborate to ensure that #LossAndDamage support is delivered quickly, effectively and without duplication.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
13/21. Yesterday also saw an important side event from the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the WIM 🧠, #SantiagoNetwork 🌐 and FRLD 💰 on “driving Collaboration 🫂 on #LossAndDamage”.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
12/21. 🎯This brief outlines how the #ICJAO applies to #LossAndDamage and how to align #COP30 decision texts with the #ICJAO’s findings: www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/th...
The Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change
By Heidi White et al.
www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
11/21. 🗣️We therefore call on the Parties 🌏 from the front lines of the #ClimateCrisis 🌡️ that are demanding that the WIM review text includes the #ICJAO to keep pushing. ✊ We also hope that other countries will step up. 👏
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
10/21. 📢The WIM review text must must therefore align with the #ICJAO. ⚖️ #ClimateAction, including addressing #LossAndDamage 🏗️❤️‍🩹 at the scale and speed of the needs of frontline countries 🌍 and communities 🧑‍🌾 is not optional 🚫 —its the law! ⚠️
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
9/21. 2. 🤝 Co-operate to address #LossAndDamage suffered by people 🧑‍🌾 and nature 🐘; and;

3. ⚖️ Uphold #HumanRights ✊ in their responses to the #ClimateCrisis.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
8/21. 📢The #ICJAO is clear on #LossAndDamage 🔥⛈️🌊, states must:

1. 🚫☠️Prevent #ClimateHarm;
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
7/21. ⚖️In informal informal session held on 12 November, a critical issue was whether the International Court of Justice’s🧑‍⚖️ historic Advisory Opinion 📜 on the Obligations of States in regards to #ClimateChange 🌡️(#ICJAO) would be referenced in the text.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
6/21. 🌐Reference to the #LossAndDamage elements of the #COP28 decision on the first Global Stocktake 🌍🔎.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
5/21. 🎯These include:

💰Recognizing the urgent need to scale up new, additional, predictable, and grant-based finance 💸 for #LossAndDamage for the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), WIM and its Santiago Network and to ensure this is adequate, accessible, and sustainable.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
4/21. ⏭️Whilst progress is being made, we understand that there are several remaining areas of contention 🗣️ that where progress must be made to ensure that #LossAndDamage support 🏗️❤️‍🩹💰 reaches the scale of the needs 📈 of countries and communities on the frontlines of the #ClimateCrisis 🌡️.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
3/21. 🔎Yesterday, there were several informal informal (closed to observers) sessions on the third review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM) 🔥 focused on advancing work on producing a draft decision text 📜.
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
2/21. 🔗Find our daily updates here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/resources/da...

🧵Read on for a very short summary of what happened on #LossAndDamage yesterday. 👇
November 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM