When #CycloneDitwah hit 🇱🇰 just days after the climate talks #COP30, it caused over $4 billion in damage.
The #LossAndDamageFund — created for exactly this kind of crisis — doesn’t even have a quarter of that amount.
⚡️This isn't just a funding gap, it's a climate justice gap!

Africa: Poor Countries Welcome Loss and Damage Fund's Call for Requests, Warn It Falls Short of Needs: [IPS] Our countries did not light this fire--but we are burning in its heat. And the smoke does not stop at our borders. --Evans Njewa, Least Developed Countries Group chair, when talking about the importance of the Loss and Damage Fund for LDCs http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPFz7L #LossAndDamageFund #ClimateJustice #EnvironmentalAwareness #LDCs #SustainableDevelopment

On the 1⃣ day of #COP30, the #LossAndDamageFund opened the call for proposals for its start-up phase. #COP30 must give guidance to scale the Fund in line with needs & to center justice, rights, without this the Fund risks becoming a climate bank with neither money nor remedy. A 🧵

The Board of the #LossAndDamageFund is working on #Participation policies for civil society & Indigenous Peoples. But it is also thinking of establishing an Active Observer seat for the private sector 😱. 160+ organizations are clear: #PeopleNotProfit: www.ciel.org/wp-content/u...

A landmark fund for climate reparations is beginning to languish. #ClimateCrisis #LossAndDamageFund https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/07/news/pledges-climate-reparation-fund