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technologiestoreachthecommunitiesthatneedtheinformation.Inaddition,thereare
aplethoraofreportingframeworksandalackofstandardisationandquantitativedata
atsufficientlygranularlevel.High-resolutionspatialdataonwhether/howadaptation
technologiesmeet theneedsof thepoorandvulnerable isrequiredfor thefocalscale
offlood impacts and interventions, but is lacking. It is complex ifnot impossible to
distil from the current transparencymechanisms a comprehensive overviewof the
statusofprogressonadaptationandits role inreducinglossesanddamages.Clearly
capacity for reporting is not sufficient and self-reporting of countries to the global
policy agreements tends to lead to too-optimistic scoring, as is seen for example in
termsof the reachofearlywarning intopoorandvulnerablecommunities.
Finance
Wefind in the transboundaryEWScase study area that costs for bridging the gap
towardscommunitiesarecurrentlynotcoveredthroughstructuralandcomprehensive
fundingstreams.ThereisevidencefromBangladeshthatshowsthatthesecostsform
a significant percentage of the overall EWScosts. Innovations in the area of local
data collection are urgently needed to reduce the current costs for data collection
ofwater levels.Targetedcrowdsourcingmightbecost-effective tocollect localdata
for flood maps as compared with costly gauges and gauge readers; at the same
time, it will bring along uncertainties in relation to the continuity and validity of
the collection. To convince policy makers and practitioners, it is essential that a
moremature, longitudinal and standardised assessment of losses and damages at
community level takesplaceagainst investments that arebeingmade inEWS.
Overall,wesuggest theframeworkprovestobeanadequatemechanismtoassess
the injusticespresent inafloodCRMmeasure, suchasa transboundaryEWS,along
the technology dimension. This assessment forms a starting point for change. In
Table 22.4we indicate in the third columnwhich climate justice principle is appli-
cable to tackle these injustices.For example, procedural justicemeansmakingsure
thepoorandvulnerableare includedinevaluatingafloodCRMmeasure.Thefourth
column inTable 22.4 estimateswhat kind of adjustment is necessary to bridge the
gapbetweenanunjustandjustsituation.Improvingaccesstoservicescanbeaquick
winwithmostly incremental adjustments.However, fundingandgovernancemight
require transformativeadjustment.
22.6 DiscussionandConclusions
This chapter assessed the role of technology for theL&Ddebate and developed a
reporting framework that links climate justiceprinciples to access, use, innovation,
finance andgovernance of technology to address loss anddamage at the crossover
from adaptation to “beyond adaptation” from the perspective of the poor and vul-
nerable.Applicationof the framework to acase studyonafloodEWSshowed that
developing countries (as well as poor and vulnerable communities in these coun-
tries) canonlyusea smallpart of the technologyspectrumavailable toaddress loss
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima