Collectively Addressing and Gathering Lessons on Loss and Damage
UUSC is CJRF’s partner in grantmaking and learning across the Pacific region, focusing on loss and damage. UUSC regrants to local partners in the Pacific and holds space for them to ...
How does displacement drive loss and damage? Can planned relocation reduce it—or, if poorly supported, create it? And what happens to those who cannot or choose not to move at all?
In 2023, United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) released a report exploring the work of CJRF partners addressing climate mobility. One key question it poses is: How can immobility drive L&D?
As the climate crisis intensifies, communities across the Pacific continue to experience devastating losses that cannot be measured solely in monetary terms: losses of culture, identity, land, and ways of life. These profound, non-monetary impacts are what international frameworks refer to as Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD).
For the Banaban community, this question reflects a lived reality spanning generations. In the 1940s, the British colonial government mined their homeland—Banaba (Ocean Island)—for phosphate, leaving it uninhabitable. Forced to relocate, many Banabans moved to Rabi Island in Fiji, while others dispersed across the Pacific.
