Challenges and countermeasures for developing countries in addressing loss and damage caused by climate change

作者：Shuo Liu, Yue Li, Bin Wang, Andong Cai, Chao Feng, Hua Lan, Ruo-Chen Zhao · 发表于：Advances in Climate Change Research · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.accre.2024.02.003 · 被引用次数：10 · 研究领域：Disaster Management and Resilience、Flood Risk Assessment and Management、Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Loss and damage caused by extreme climate events have attracted increasing attention. The 28th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter referred to as the Convention) has agreed to adopt Loss and Damage Fund agreement, which identified the source of funding and the funds to be entrusted to the World Bank. However, there is still ambiguous that how to allocate the funds could accelerate the effectiveness of meeting the needs for developing countries. Pre-disaster prevention and preparedness is one of the most effective measures to deal with loss and damage, which closely related to adaptation. Previous studies rarely analyzed quantitatively the financial needs of pre-disaster prevention and preparedness relating to adaptation to reduce loss and damage. Based on the official reports submitted by countries under the Convention, this study analyzes the annual change in the total financial support provided by developed countries to developing countries, the proportion of pre-disaster prevention and preparedness in the adaptation needs of developing countries, and the progress in raising the current annual funding target of 100 billion USD for developed countries, to reveal the financial and technical challenges facing by developing countries on addressing loss and damage. The results show that by 2030, the total adaptation financial needs of developing countries are estimated to be about 3.8 trillion USD, of which pre-disa...