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and damage as they have limited capacities and funding for innovating, accessing
and using technology. They are therefore forced to implement the bareminimum
largelycopycat typeof technology.Asclimatechangeprogresses, the levelofadap-
tation required increases,whereas ifnoaction is taken, the technologyavailable for
adaptation remains the same.Thismeans the adaptation deficit (Burton 2004)will
increase.
Wearguedthatattentiontoclimatejusticeprinciplescanhelptomotivatesupport
for widening the technology spectrum available to developing countries and for
addressing the injustices we inventoried by distributingmeans of implementation
(technology, finance and capacity building) through underlying principles such as
distributive, compensatory, transitional or procedural justice.We hold that global
communities have a responsibility to ensure sustainable use of, equitable access to
and inclusive innovationof technology to shape the soft adaptation limit and, once
this limit is reached, to support transformative and curativemeasures necessary to
tackleadditional risksdue toclimatechange.
In thisconcludingsection,webuildontheframeworkinorder todeveloprecom-
mendationsfortheParisAgreementandWIMastohowtechnologycanbemobilised
to contribute to climate justice.As the required actions are partly in the adaptation
and partly in the L&Dpillar, recommendations will cover both.We organise our
suggestions around the threemain functions of theWIM(understanding, dialogue
andsupportplusaction).
UnderstandingL&D
Understanding the switch fromadaptation toL&Denables improved investment in
technologies foradaptationwhileclarifyingtheunavoidable risksrequiringcurative
or transformativeaction.Weemphasisethat thiswillbepossibleuptothehardlimit,
afterwhichonlyL&Dmeasuresarepossible.Theexecutivecommitteeof theWIM
may include in thework streamand expert group on comprehensive riskmanage-
ment an inventoryofhowtechnologies shape the soft limits inbothdevelopingand
developedcountries. Itwillalsobeimportant toreachasolidbasisandagreementon
what thehard limits fromatechnologicalpointare forclimatechangerisks, suchas
for sea-level rise, to avoid contentious political discussions onoperationalising the
L&Dmechanism.
Dialogue,CoordinationandCoherenceonLossandDamage
Partiesmaywant to link dialogue, coordination and coherence to the transparency
mechanismunderArticle 7, as theWIMdoes not have a transparencymechanism.
Article 7 of the ParisAgreement states that each party should periodically submit
anadaptationcommunication,whichmayinclude itspriorities, implementationand
support needs, plans and actions. In this context, Article 13 states that, under the
transparencyframework,countriesareencouraged—withoutitbeingmandatory—to
report informationon their adaptationactions tohighlightwhat theyhavedoneand
whatmoreneeds to bedone (Desgain andSharma2016).The transparency frame-
work offers flexibility in the scope, frequency and level of detail of reporting, and
in the scope of review (Kato and Ellis 2016). There is a window of opportunity
as part of the facilitative dialogue to start a discussion on including technology in
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