Category: Additional Content

November 2021

Globally, We have entered the era of loss and damage and therefore feel we must repeat that COP26 must

• Decide to provide sufficient and needs-based Loss and Damage finance, in addition to the 100bn dollars per year. Loss and Damage finance must also be included in the post-2025 climate finance target.
• Establish a process to identify the scale of funding needed to address Loss and Damage as well as suitable mechanisms to deliver the finance to developing countries. The outcome must be presented at COP27.
• Support developing countries in enabling national level systems to distribute Loss and Damage finance to ensure country ownership, gender responsiveness and self-determination. This could be facilitated by the fully operationalized Santiago Network for Loss and Damage.

In addition, COP26 needs to deliver on the 1.5-degree limit. To this end, the cover decision of COP26 must therefore

• Recognize the importance to limit warming to 1.5C
• Recognize relevant scientific reports assessing the emissions gap & the urgency of stronger action to limit global warming to 1.5C
• Commit to raising mitigation ambition for 2030 emissions reductions
• Commit to phase out fossil fuels
• And mandate the UNFCCC Secretariat to produce an updated annual NDC synthesis report, to be released prior to COP27 and COP28

CAN is extremely disappointed that human rights language was deleted from the final text of the decision on the Glasgow Work Programme on Article 12 of the Paris Agreement.
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November 2021

Globally, We have entered the era of loss and damage and therefore feel we must repeat that COP26 must

• Decide to provide sufficient and needs-based Loss and Damage finance, in addition to the 100bn dollars per year. Loss and Damage finance must also be included in the post-2025 climate finance target.
• Establish a process to identify the scale of funding needed to address Loss and Damage as well as suitable mechanisms to deliver the finance to developing countries. The outcome must be presented at COP27.
• Support developing countries in enabling national level systems to distribute Loss and Damage finance to ensure country ownership, gender responsiveness and self-determination. This could be facilitated by the fully operationalized Santiago Network for Loss and Damage.

In addition, COP26 needs to deliver on the 1.5-degree limit. To this end, the cover decision of COP26 must therefore

• Recognize the importance to limit warming to 1.5C
• Recognize relevant scientific reports assessing the emissions gap & the urgency of stronger action to limit global warming to 1.5C
• Commit to raising mitigation ambition for 2030 emissions reductions
• Commit to phase out fossil fuels
• And mandate the UNFCCC Secretariat to produce an updated annual NDC synthesis report, to be released prior to COP27 and COP28

With regard to Article 6, the same troubling loopholes remain and would mean double counting and hot air carried over from the pre-Paris period.
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November 2021

COP26 was supposed to be a ‘crisis COP’, a lifeline for the millions of people living in a permanent state of crisis– losing their lives, livelihoods and homes as a result of climate impacts caused by rich polluting countries and corporations. 

We came to this COP with the hope that world leaders will respond to the needs of vulnerable peoples and communities.  The science is clear.  We are now in the era of Climate Impacts. Loss and Damage caused by climate change is happening already. Climate change is destroying lives and communities now, but yet you political leaders failed to respond to their plight. We came to Glasgow with a litmus test for you.  Provide finance on loss and damage – and you failed! We are disappointed by the betrayal of the rich nations and you, the COP Presidency, for being complicit in blocking the proposal by the G77 + China on the creation of the Glasgow Loss and Damage Finance Facility. We are also disappointed with developing countries for not standing strong in the face of this pressure and acting in the interests of their citizens.  

Incremental progress is not good enough. What we need is concrete commitments to fight the climate emergency.
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November 2021

The world is still in the midst of a pandemic exacerbated by the unequal access to vaccines. We are reminded everyday of the painful, unjust and unequally distributed losses and damages we all face, but in particular the most vulnerable countries and peoples. This is a matter of Climate Justice. It is a matter of Human Rights. People are angry, they are suffering, and you are still letting them down.

Your cover decision does not provide justice for the millions already facing loss and damage due to climate change nor does it keep 1.5C in sight to avert future worsening impacts. We need finance for loss and damage now. You must agree to establish a finance facility to do this.
This is the measure of success at this COP.

Developed countries must compensate for not keeping the $100bn promise so far. and commit to increase the share of finance going to adaptation to reach 50% by 2025. We want to see this in the cover decision.

Human Rights and Indigenous Rights have been deleted in this process. Almost all countries who pretend to champion Human Rights were willing to trade off these fundamental principles for crude opportunism. Parties have now rolled back historical victories won decades ago.
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November 2021

Today is Loss and Damage day.  It is a day of grief for all of us.  We are reminded of the painful, unjust and unequally distributed losses and damages we all face, but in particular the most vulnerable countries and peoples. This is a matter of Climate Justice. It is a matter of Human Rights. We are extremely outraged that the issue of Human Rights and Indigenous Rights continue to be attacked in this COP. The outrageous deletion of the references to these in the Glasgow Work Program on ACE is shocking. It must be redressed. As civil society, we have been locked out of this COP. It has proven to be the most exclusionary COP ever. If we were in the rooms we would not have allowed the deletion of Human Rights and Indigenous Rights and the pressure on Finance for Loss & Damage would be felt. 

We want to remind you that success or failure on loss and damage finance will be the litmus test for this COP. We need to leave Glasgow with an explicit decision that results in delivering Loss and Damage finance. The complete absence of support for Loss & Damage has a  direct impact on the millions of people already suffering the impacts of climate change. 
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