GI-ESCR and other ESCR-Net members published a briefing note in which we join civil society organizations and social movements in calling on Parties, particularly Parties bearing historical responsibility for the climate crisis, as well as with the most available resources, to prioritize, and concretely deliver on, loss and damage at COP 26, including through the provision of new, additional and long-term finance for loss and damage.

In doing so, we ask that Parties adopt a human rights-based approach. The briefing provides observations in relation to how loss and damage relates to human rights and why a human rights-based approach is important. It further sets out 3 main recommendations to State Parties:

1. Integrate human rights in decisions to avert, minimize and address loss and damage;
2. Deliver on climate finance in ways that comply with human rights, are gender responsive, proactively address intersectional challenges and support efforts towards fiscal justice
3. Agree on governance issues which would lead to better human rights outcomes on loss and damage

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