THE issue of “Loss and Damage from Climate Change” is a relatively new, but rapidly emerging, topic of debate and discussions in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It was first raised some years ago by Solomon Islands on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) as they were concerned about the complete loss of some of their islands due to sea level rise. However, it did not get much support until the sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP16) held in Cancun, Mexico in December 2010 where the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Global Group strongly supported AOSIS and got a Work Programme on Loss and Damage included in the Cancun Adaptation Framework.
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