Troubled journey towards climate justice: Tackling manifest climate injustice in the loss and damage negotiations

The paper analyses the policy shifts of the climate change negotiations, provides an overview how L&D evolved in negotiation process, discusses the current debate and disagreement on L&D emerged in the post Paris COP negotiations, and finally concludes with five policy recommendations directed to the COP and to the national stakeholders.

The recommendations are: a) a standalone L&D agenda item under the subsidiary body for implementation (SBI), b) a standalone L&D financing mechanism with multiple windows, c) strengthened institutional arrangement-global to national, d) new and additional L&D financing-not blending with the humanitarian assistance, e) separate governance and fund management mechanism under the conference of the parties (COP) to the UNFCCC.