Among the questions explored in the report is: How can displacement drive losses and damages? The experience of communities in Cogea, Fiji, helps illustrate this.
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As the Transitional Committee on Loss and Damage meets for the final time before COP28, we must continue to center the experiences of frontline communities. This brief shares lessons learned from community-led projects.
The issue of climate-induced loss and damage (L&D) is coming into its power as a movement—far beyond proof of concept. Although it’s been a budding idea for decades, it became a reality in the lead-up to the Paris Agreement. Now it is experiencing a growth spurt and is pushing against the status quo, demanding to be heard and respected.
This article is the second of a three-part series that explains how organizations are addressing loss and damage across the globe. We introduce how the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) will advance human rights with a community of grassroots partners in the Pacific.
It is past time to advance a progressive US advocacy agenda on climate-forced displacement. For leaders working in climate policy, the political administration turnover provides an opportunity to see real change.
In October 2018, CJRF co-sponsored a historic gathering: the First Peoples’ Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement with the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) and the Alaska Institute for Justice. Held in Girdwood, Alaska, the three-day conference brought together more than 60 community leaders and advocates from around the world to address how climate change is forcing indigenous communities off their land.
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