Governing Climate Change Loss and Damage

Lisa Vanhala is Professor of Political Science at University College London. Her work on loss and damage governance, climate change litigation and environmental legal mobilization has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Global Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Change. She is also the author of Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage focused on the UN. Elisa Calliari is a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. She studies how policy makers at different governance scales understand and address climate change impacts beyond adaptation. Elisa is involved in loss and damage negotiations as member of the Italian and EU delegation at the UNFCCC.

• 1. Introduction Lisa Vanhala and Elisa Calliari; 2. Theory and methods Lisa Vanhala and Elisa Calliari; 3. The loss and damage policy landscape: Tuvalu as a 'most likely case' Elisa Calliari; 4. Knowledge politics on the frontlines: the problem of acknowledging loss and damage in Antigua and Barbuda Lisa Vanhala and Michai Robertson; 5. After the storm: the institutionally disruptive impacts of climate change in the Bahamas Lisa Vanhala, Adelle Thomas and Latonya Williams; 6. Loss and damage in a land-locked state: the paradox of Ethiopia's green economy Lisa Vanhala, Selam Kidane Abebe and Asaye Ketema; 7. Loss and damage policy in Bangladesh: from domestic challenges to global engagements Douwe van Schie, Md Fahad Hossain and Nusrat Naushin; 8. 'Money for the poor': perceptions of loss and damage in Peru's emerging economy Elisa Calliari and Monserrat Madariaga Gómez de Cuenca; 9. (Non-)Governance evolving: COP25 and Chile's growing engagement with loss and damage Monserrat Madariaga Gómez De Cuenca; 10. Conclusion.

'Loss and Damage has become the third pillar of international climate action. Crucially, we know little about how national contexts are embedding it in their domestic climate policy agenda. This insightful book offers an important comparative view of the domestic politics of Loss and Damage policymaking. The book is a must-read for those seeking a general theory and novel case studies on how national institutions and actors in the Global South have owned and adjusted to the issue of Loss and Damage in recent years.' Federica Genovese, University of Oxford