Loss & Damage Across Generations due to Climate Change

• Main Author: Phillips, Alicia
• Other Authors: Transitions Energétiques et Environnementales (TREE), Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (UPPA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), CNRS-formation Entreprise (CFE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The University of Pau
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2023
• Subjects: Loss and Damage; Climate Change; Energy Justice; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SHS.DROIT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Law; Pacific; Ocean acidification; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-04387681; https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-04387681/document; https://univ-pau.hal.science/hal-04387681/file/Scientific%20Poster_Loss%20%26%20Damage_Alicia%20Phillips_October%202023.pdf.pdf

Loss and Damage (L&D) due to climate change primarily from human activity has become a key focus for this generation. On January 12, 2023, NASA warned that 2022 was the fifth warmest year on record and noted that the trend was alarming. In July 2023, CNN recorded that the first week of July saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded. More recently, in September 2023, the United Nations indicated that implementation must accelerate to increase ambition across all fronts, taking an all of society approach to respond to the climate crisis. The reality is that as the global temperature rises, domino effects occur across societies. As the climate gets warmer, forest fires intensify, the ocean gets warmer, sea levels rise, artic sea ice melts, ocean acidification increases, and droughts begin to intensify. Yet despite all this, efforts to completely cease activities to fuel this damage caused primarily by fossil fuels have been slow. L&D is particularly important following not only the breakthrough agreement on the funding for loss and damage achieved following the Conference of Parties (COP27) Conference but also the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on March 20, 2023, that stresses the climate bomb present and the need for climate action on all fronts. Therefore the priority of climate action is urgent. Today the question is no longer about living in a sustainable world but survival of the world we live in. This notion of existence and survival will be explored as I compare the loss and damage due to climate change being experienced in small islands looking at the case of the Caribbean versus the Pacific Islands and in coastal cities where I look at the case of for example, Bordeaux versus Venice. To do so, I will be applying the concept of Energy Justice, which is a theory that aims to foster a more equitable and sustainable future by looking at for instance: the way decision makers engage with society; the allocation of environmental ills; repairing any harm done; assigning ...