Recommendation 77

At the Climate and Development Ministerial on 31 March 2021, the Government launched the ‘Climate and Development Pathway’, including the commitment to operationalise the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage before COP26.166 While participants of a subsequent Ministerial meeting on 25-26 July 2021 agreed on the need for urgent action, they disagreed on the creation of a separate funding line for loss and damage.167 159 As with climate finance, there is no official definition of loss and damage. In line with our predecessor Committee, we understand it as “the impacts of climate change that cannot be avoided through mitigation or adaptation.” See: International Development Committee, UK aid for combating climate change (HC 1432), Paragraph 158, 8 May 2019 160 Q58 [Catherine Pettengell], Q76 [Nick Mabey] 161 Bond and Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK) (CDC0045), CARE International UK (CDC0029), Practical Action (CDC0040), Quakers in Britain (CDC0004) 162 Bond and Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK) (CDC0045) 163 Bond and Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK) (CDC0045) 164 Bond and Climate Action Network UK (CAN-UK) (CDC0045) 165 Q16 [Diann Black-Layne] 166 UK COP26, Climate and Development Pathway, accessed 26 October 2021 167 UK COP26, July Ministerial Chairs Summary, 5 August 2021 28 Global Britain in demand: UK climate action and international development around COP26 UK’s response—loss and damage