Article: Coming full circle: the history of loss and damage under the UNFCCC Journal: International Journal of Global Warming (IJGW) 2015 Vol.8 No.2 pp.141 - 157 Abstract: This paper chronicles the history of the rise of loss and damage in negotiations under the United Nations Framework on Climate Change and the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in bringing about this paradigm shift. Over the past two decades, the global climate change regime has shifted from a focus primarily on mitigation, to both mitigation and adaptation and finally to the current era in which loss and damage has emerged as a key fixture on the agenda with the establishment of the Warsaw international mechanism on loss and damage at the 19th Conference of the Parties in November 2013. This shift can be attributed to the realisation that mitigation and adaptation efforts have been insufficient to avoid the impacts of climate change. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Coming full circle: the history of loss and damage under the UNFCCC

Authors: Erin Roberts; Saleemul Huq

Addresses: Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK ' International Centre for Climate Change and Development, 98 Park Road, Baridhara, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh

Abstract: This paper chronicles the history of the rise of loss and damage in negotiations under the United Nations Framework on Climate Change and the role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in bringing about this paradigm shift. Over the past two decades, the global climate change regime has shifted from a focus primarily on mitigation, to both mitigation and adaptation and finally to the current era in which loss and damage has emerged as a key fixture on the agenda with the establishment of the Warsaw international mechanism on loss and damage at the 19th Conference of the Parties in November 2013. This shift can be attributed to the realisation that mitigation and adaptation efforts have been insufficient to avoid the impacts of climate change.

Keywords: climate change impact; United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; UNFCCC; negotiations; mitigation; adaptation; loss and damage; climate science; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; IPCC.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2015.071964

International Journal of Global Warming, 2015 Vol.8 No.2, pp.141 - 157

Received: 31 Jan 2013
Accepted: 08 Feb 2014
Published online: 25 Sep 2015 *

Title: Coming full circle: the history of loss and damage under the UNFCCC

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