1/36. 📜 It is the third and final day of the first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund in Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪. As the dust settles on the first meeting, here are some of our key takeaways 🤔 from today's discussions and some and some initial reflections. 🧵

6/36. A point later reiterated by several developing county Board members including MoNasr of Egypt 🇪🇬, who highlighted that even though Board members were all in the same city, they all had different situations that affected how they could participate virtually.

📢 Severe Weather Alert in Abu Dhabi‼️

Warning of rains, thunderstorms and hail forces the #LossAndDamage Fund Board meeting to shift online.

This is a stark reminder of the #ClimateEmergency we are facing globally!

#ClimateCrisis

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1/39. The first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund started today in Abu Dhabi, in the UAE 🇦🇪. Here are some of our key takeaways 🤔 and some important messages 🗣️from the first day of the first meeting of the Board. 🧵

1/3 📢: The #LossAndDamage Fund board meeting starts today and is crucial for mobilizing the much-needed financial support to address the impact of the #ClimateCrisis in vulnerable communities.

Read the statement on youth expectations from the meeting: shorturl.at/fAOZ3

1/3. The Board has received formal offers to become the host country of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund from: Philippines 🇵🇭, Bahamas 🇧🇸, Barbados 🇧🇧, & Antigua and Barbuda 🇦🇬. Now the Board must agree on a selection process & formally launch a public request to all Parties.

1/2.⚠️USEFUL INFO: The first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund starts today (April 30th) at 09:00 (GMT+4) in Abu Dhabi, UAE 🇦🇪. The webcast is below. However, the Board must first agree that the meeting will be webcast*.

🔗Webcast link: youtube.com/embed/X-xASNf3…

1/2.📰Important Climate Home News op-ed from Isatis M. Cintrón of @ACEObservatory, Liane Schalatek of Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington, DC, and Lien Vandamme of Center for International Environmental Law on how 'limiting frontline voices in the #LossAndDamage Fund is a recipe for disaster'. 🚫

🔗Read it here: climatechangenews.com/2024/04/26/lim…

1/6. 📢As the first meeting under the Ad Hoc Work Programme (AHWP) of the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance ( #NCQG ) gets underway in Cartagena, Colombia 🇨🇴, here is a reminder of some key reasons why #LossAndDamage must be a separate sub goal under the #NCQG . 🧵

📢 All eyes on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights's hearings on the #ClimateEmergency & #HumanRights ⚖️

It’s high time to clarify States' legal obligations to realize effective #Remedy for those suffering from #ClimateHarm .

#InterAmericanCourtInBarbados might do just that! The world is watching.

NOW at Inter-American Court of Human Rights 👇
Angélica Corredor Castillo from Comité Ambiental en Defensa de la Vida Comité Ambiental:
'We have a right to comprehensive reparations, the UN Climate Change #LossAndDamageFund won't deliver this. We call for justice.'
#InterAmericanCourtInBarbados #ClimateReparations

1/8.📜NEW BRIEF: Ahead of the first meeting of the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund (LDF) this advocacy brief underscores the importance of establishing robust, inclusive mechanisms for meaningful participation! 🗣️

🔗Read it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/publication/lo…

1/2.📰NEW BLOG: Peck Gee Chua shares how her passion for work led to chronic health diagnoses and asks is slowing down and taking care of ourselves a luxury when #LossAndDamage caused by the #ClimateCrisis and the #Polycrisis is so urgent?

🔗Read it here: lossanddamagecollaboration.org/pages/consumed…

First guest blog on the recently launched #Wellbeing page from your friends at the Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC)! 🩷This is an important read filled with insights from Peck Gee Chua. 🥰The takeaway: wellbeing is not a luxury. It is essential if you want to make big change in the world. 👇

The right to remedy is front and center in the ongoing Inter-American Court of Human Rights’s advisory hearings on #Climate Change & #HumanRights .

👉🏾Watch social movements & CSOs intervene on #Climate Reparations! (today 25 April, starting 9 am in Barbados) : shorturl.at/bdrKU

#Climate Justice

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Few days left to register

Join our first session on loss and damage finance for 2024. The session will focus on the way forward on #LossAndDamage finance post-COP28 and the innovative sources of L&D finance that can be pursued

Register: bit.ly/3UD1R0t
Perspectives Climate Group