Når skaderne er sket efter klimaforandringerne – og måske er uigenkaldelige -, hvem skal så betale? Det er et af de omstridte spørgsmål, som forhandlerne på klimakonferencen i Doha, der indledes mandag, skal drøfte og måske tage stilling til.
JOHANNESBURG, 23 November 2012 (IRIN): The upcoming UN climate change talks in Doha could be on the verge of adding a focus on “loss and damage” to its framing of the global response to climate change.
The new issue area would supplement existing emphases on the mitigation (lindring) of and adaptation (tilpasning) to climate change – underscoring the growing realization that simply adjusting to a warmer world may no longer be enough.
There is no agreed-upon (ingen entydig) definition for “loss and damage”, but the phrase broadly refers to a range of harms incurred in developing countries from the impact of climate change that cannot be avoided either through mitigation or adaptation.
The issue has been contentious (omstridt), as the term could allude (henvise) to a right to compensation and a legal obligation on the part of developed countries to provide it.
Its inclusion in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating texts was resisted until the 2010 UN meeting in Cancun, Mexico. The phrase was featured in the Cancun Adaptation Framework, which called for a work programme to explore the concept.
The programme, after two years of series of meetings and studies, will report its findings in Doha, and there is some expectation that a separate mechanism to address funding or guidance on how to deal with loss and damage could be announced.
“One of the main debates will be how to institutionalize loss and damage more formally”, says Sönke Kreft, policy officer with the NGO Germanwatch.
Losses inevitable
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