Loss and damage is beyond adaptation, Palau tells Ocean Summit

5 December, 2015, Paris, France, COP21 - Loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate go well beyond adaptation, which is why small island nations like Palau will fight hard to have loss and damage built-in as a stand alone mechanism in the Paris Agreement.

The comment was made by Ambassador Ngedikes Olai Uludong, who is Palau's Ambassador to the European Union and also Ambassador on Climate Change when addressing a side event on the oceans in the margins of negotiations for a new climate change agreement in Paris.

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Source: SPREP