Dear colleagues, I would like to bring your attention to a new article published in Nature Climate Change today: "Vulnerability-based allocations in loss and damage finance" <https://rdcu.be/dmIdK>.
As you may know, while COP27 decided to establish loss and damage funding arrangements to assist "particularly vulnerable countries", it did not identify these countries, or how vulnerability should be factored into allocations, or how vulnerability should be measured. This new article reviews UNFCCC policy documents and summary reports to trace the evolution of the climate regime provisions for identifying particularly vulnerable countries. It also reviews the academic and policy literatures on international adaptation finance to present the evolution of vulnerability as an allocative approach and of its measurement. Based on the findings, the article argues that quantitative indicators remain conceptually fraught and methodologically complex as one number cannot fully capture national susceptibility to climate-related loss and damage. Furthermore, adopting vulnerability indicators will not depoliticize allocation decisions, given the power dynamics between and among contributor and recipient countries. Given these considerations, creative approaches will be needed to center equity and justice. Please feel free to on-share with interested colleagues. Regards, Dr Stacy-ann Robinson Colby College -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/CAD9KELoxHGytmi4V69dOyRskmOfSy9eU5DXVFcRstLV%2B9Gks-w%40mail.gmail.com.
