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Conference on Loss and Damage 2019

30 October 2019 @ 08:30 - 1 November 2019 @ 15:30 CET

While the proliferation of new papers and initiatives relating to L&D is promising, many challenges remain for the scientific and policy communities.

These include how L&D from climate change should be conceptualised, how to measure and quantify existing L&D and predict future L&D, and what governance arrangements are most appropriate for different contexts.

For example, which approaches to L&D from climate-related events can best account for both economic as well as non-economic impacts, where increasing evidence suggest the latter can be just as significant to individuals and communities ?

How can climate science, ecological science and sustainability science perspectives be combined to advance L&D theory and practice? And how can L&D from climate events be meaningfully situated within the broader sustainable development agenda, including the SDGs, as highlighted in Article 8 of the Paris Agreement? Is there need for new research to support L&D policy, as new questions emerge that require attention?

The conference will explore L&D through five analytical lenses:

  1. Defining L&D from a climate change perspective – what do we know?
  2. Defining L&D from an ecological perspective – what do we know?
  3. Defining L&D from a sustainability perspective – what do we know?
  4. Governance and economics of L&D – how do we do it?
  5. Policy and practice of L&D on social-ecological systems – how do we do it?

Details

Start:
30 October 2019 @ 08:30
End:
1 November 2019 @ 15:30
Website:
https://www.lucsus.lu.se/lucsus.lu.se/conference-on-loss-and-damage-2019

Organizers

Lund University – Centre for Sustainability Studies
Centre for Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) Lund University
Oxford University
Met Office UK
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD)
Munich Re Foundation
Copenhagen University

Venue

Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS
Josephson Building, Biskopsgatan 5
Lund, 223 62 Sweden
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