Lost and Damaged: From Climate COP to Biodiversity COP
By Souparna Lahiri This year’s UN Climate Conference, hyped as the “Implementation COP” where world leaders were to finally turn words into action, failed to take off in Sharm El Sheikh. The last-minute agreement on a proposed funding mechanism for loss and damage and a ‘ready to operationalise’ text for Article 6.8 on non-market approaches were all that could be salvaged. While these two gains should be celebrated, COP27 also emerged—like many climate conferences before it and as two-week long …
