Articulating a Loss and Damage Fund: How the Global South is Rethinking Agency and Justice in an Age of Climate Disasters

The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to disasters exacerbated by climate injustices, which finally gained international recognition of l...

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Published in:Environmental communication 2024-04, Vol.18 (3), p.302-321
Main Authors: Kamboh, Shafiq Ahmad, Ittefaq, Muhammad, Pezzullo, Phaedra C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
agency
articulation theory
Climate justice
Climate policy
Damage
Developing countries
Disasters
Global climate
Historic floods
imaginary
LDCs
Low income areas
low-income countries
Natural disasters
Typhoons
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Summary:The Global South (or Low-Income Countries, LICs) long has been advocating for the establishment of a Loss and Damage (L&D) Fund to address vulnerability and limited adaptation capacity in response to disasters exacerbated by climate injustices, which finally gained international recognition of late. This essay focuses on two key moments that led to this landmark agreement: at COP19, when Philippines climate delegate Naderev "Yeb" Saño advocated for L&D in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan; and during COP27, when global leaders invoked the historic floods in Pakistan as the agreement was reached. We consider how these two disasters were invoked during the passing of L&D in ways that critically interrupted the prevailing spiral of silence to articulate "disasters" to "climate" and "climate" to "justice" in the global climate policy arena. These discourses reveal, then, part of the expanding imaginary emerging to address human agency and inequities in an age of the climate disasters, including the idea of a "global majority."
ISSN:1752-4032
1752-4040
DOI:10.1080/17524032.2024.2327058