Access to climate finance including the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage has depended increasingly on countries being able to demonstrate, in a credible and comparable way, the scale and nature of the loss and damage they have experienced. For Pacific Island countries, this is a significant technical and capacity challenge, as existing global tools mainly look at quantifiable asset-based valuation methods, that do not capture the loss of customary land, cultural practice, ecosystem services, health or community cohesion that define much of the Pacific's lived experience of climate change. Through the BOLD Response Project, partner countries, SPREP and Climate Analytics are collaborating to design and test a loss and damage assessment methodology for non-economic loss that is technically robust, grounded in Pacific realities, and shaped by community consultation. The aim is an approach that turns communities’ lived experience of loss, into evidence that governments can use in planning, reporting and funding requests, while keeping communities in control of their stories and data. This side event presents the progress to date, shares early lessons, and provides an opportunity to discuss the key elements and principles that a practical Pacific NELD Assessment Methodology should consider.

Venue

Moana Blue Pacific Pavilion

Speakers

Honourable Hu 'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni (Pacific Political Champion-Loss and Damage), Ms. Moirah Matou, Vanuatu BOLD Response Project, National Coordinator, DoCC, Mr. Patrick Pringle, Climate Analytics, Ms. Leba A Gaunavinaka - Adaptation Advisor, Fiji Government's Climate Change and International Cooperation Division (tbc), Moderator: Malaki Iakopo, Project Manager, BOLD Response Project, SPREP