Climate Change: International Assistance

(asked on 20th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will pledge bilateral finance for climate-related loss and damage prior to the fund under the UNFCCC becoming operation.


Answered by
Anne-Marie Trevelyan Portrait
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 13th January 2023

The UK recognises that the current impacts of climate change are leading to losses and damages, and these are likely to increase in frequency and severity. As such, more needs to be done at global, regional and local levels to help countries and communities avert, minimise and address those losses and damages.

At COP26 in November 2021, the UK strongly supported the establishment of a 'Glasgow Dialogue on Loss and Damage' to discuss the arrangements for the funding of activities to avert, minimise and address loss and damage. Building on this at COP27, all parties agreed to establish new funding arrangements to assist developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to adverse effects of climate change, including a fund for responding to loss and damage.

The UK is constructively engaging with the establishment of the Loss and Damage fund's Transitional Committee. We will continue to work with this Committee, with parties to the UNFCCC and with civil society, to ensure that the fund and wider funding arrangements deliver effectively for countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change. Funding arrangements are yet to be developed so it is not possible to say at this stage if or what amount, the UK might contribute.

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