Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda

Boyd, Emily; Chaffin, Brian C.; Dorkenoo, Kelly; Jackson, G. V. H.; Harrington, Luke J.; N’Guetta, Alicia; Johansson, Emma; Nordlander, Linnéa; Rosa, Salvatore Paolo De; Raju, Emmanuel; Scown, Murray W.; Soo, Joyce; Stuart-Smith, Rupert

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2021.09.015

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“…Three themes through which we analyze disproportionality in loss and damage scholarship: risk, impacts, and burdens. The themes are interconnected and not mutually exclusive, and issues of governance span all three between development and inequality (Boyd et al, 2021). It is around this relationship that we anchor our analytical framework.…”

Section: A Framework For the Disproportionality Conceptmentioning

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“…To analyze disproportionality in loss and damage literature, we begin by reviewing its use in other scholarship and identify key elements important to disproportionality. At its core, research on loss and damage from climate change focuses on interactions between the environment (in particular, the climate) and human society, and, more broadly, between development and inequality (Boyd et al, 2021). It is around this relationship that we anchor our analytical framework.…”

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A critical review of disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change

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Boyd

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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The notion of disproportionate impacts of climate change on certain groups and regions has long been a part of policy debates and scientific inquiry, and was instrumental to the emergence of the “Loss and Damage” (L&D) policy agenda in international negotiations on climate change. Yet, ‘disproportionality’ remains relatively undefined and implicit in science on loss and damage from climate change. A coherent theoretical basis of disproportionality is needed for advancing science and policy on loss and damage. It is necessary to ask: What is disproportionate, to whom, and in relation to what? We critically examine the uses of disproportionality in loss and damage scholarship by analyzing how disproportionality is treated in the literature conceptually, methodologically, and empirically. We review publications against a set of criteria derived from seminal work on disproportionality in other fields, mainly environmental justice and disaster studies that have analyzed environment–society interactions. We find disproportionality to be dynamic and multidimensional, spanning the themes of risks, impacts, and burdens. Our results show that while the concept is often used in loss and damage scholarship, its use relies on unarticulated notions of justice and often lacks conceptual, methodological and empirical grounding. Disproportionality also appears as a boundary concept, enabling critical and multiscalar explorations of historical processes that shape the uneven impacts of climate change, alongside social justice and normative claims for desired futures. This emerging area of science offers an opportunity to critically re‐evaluate the conceptualization of the relationship between climate‐change‐related impacts, development, and inequality. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Climate Change and Global Justice Climate and Development > Social Justice and the Politics of Development

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Section: A Framework For the Disproportionality Conceptmentioning

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Section: A Framework For the Disproportionality Conceptmentioning

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A critical review of disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change

Dorkenoo

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Boyd

2022

WIREs Climate Change

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“…The results are inadequate infrastructure, a lack of social support systems that could reduce impacts or help with recovery from past disasters, and processes that push the most vulnerable groups of people to live in hazardous areas. This causes disproportionate impacts (visible and invisible loss and damage) 7 , especially where there are multiple hazards at the same time. These kinds of impacts have been seen during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic 8 : the COVID-19 pandemic in combination with other natural hazards in many parts of the world may have pushed already vulnerable populations into further vulnerability, which is being referred to as compounded vulnerabilities.…”

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Stop blaming the climate for disasters

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Otto

2022

Commun Earth Environ

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“…Unavoidable refers to losses or damages that could not be stopped by any mitigation or adaptation action. Boyd et al (2021Boyd et al ( , p.1366 summarise that scientists, policy-makers and practitioners all have different perspectives on the meaning of loss and damage and the varying definitions sit on a spectrum. At one end of the spectrum, some consider all climate-related impacts as potential loss and damage and see it as "a distraction from mitigation and adaptation" (Boyd et al, 2021(Boyd et al, , p.1366.…”

Section: Brief History Of "Losses and Damages" Definitionsmentioning

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Climate Justice and Losses and Damages – Linkages and Donor Policies

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2022

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International attention on debates and issues around loss and damage and climate justice has never been higher, spurred on by global impacts of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This rapid review explores linkages between climate justice and losses and damages, and the inclusion of climate justice ideas in donor policies. Both climate justice and losses and damages are complex issues with large, diverse and growing literature bases, touching on a huge array of interrelated issues. Yet the meaning, scope and practical implications of both concepts are still contested. Hence, this rapid review only provides a snapshot of the ideas discussed and the literature available. It is recommended to explore the references for more detailed debates and discussions.

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Loss and damage from climate change: A new climate justice agenda

Cited by 79 publications

References 11 publications

A critical review of disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change

A critical review of disproportionality in loss and damage from climate change

Stop blaming the climate for disasters

Climate Justice and Losses and Damages – Linkages and Donor Policies

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