CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html><html data-wf-domain="www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org" data-wf-page="621e103a77591319a64df868" data-wf-site="605869242b20501f9a579e7a" data-wf-collection="621e103a775913a9f64df855" data-wf-item-slug="stories"><head><meta charset="utf-8"/><title>LOSS AND DAMAGE COLLABORATION</title><meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" name="viewport"/><link href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/css/loss-and-damage-collaboration.webflow.e08f918d2.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/><link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" rel="preconnect"/><link href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" rel="preconnect" crossorigin="anonymous"/><script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/webfont/1.6.26/webfont.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">WebFont.load({ google: { families: ["Ubuntu:300,300italic,400,400italic,500,500italic,700,700italic","PT Sans:400,400italic,700,700italic","Oswald:200,300,400,500,600,700","Lato:100,100italic,300,300italic,400,400italic,700,700italic,900,900italic","Tenor Sans:regular","Source Serif Pro:regular,700","Libre Franklin:regular,600","Syne:regular,500,600,700,800","IBM Plex Mono:100,100italic,200,200italic,300,300italic,regular,italic,500,500italic,600,600italic,700,700italic","Playfair Display:regular,500,italic,500italic","Playfair:300,regular,500,600,700,800,900,300italic,italic,500italic,600italic,700italic,800italic,900italic"] }});</script><script type="text/javascript">!function(o,c){var n=c.documentElement,t=" w-mod-";n.className+=t+"js",("ontouchstart"in o||o.DocumentTouch&&c instanceof DocumentTouch)&&(n.className+=t+"touch")}(window,document);</script><link href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60cbad3e2866ab8184e6abc9_Favicon_final.png" rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon"/><link href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60cbad41084fc43017661dd8_WebClip.png" rel="apple-touch-icon"/><script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-JDL432L36C"></script><script type="text/javascript">window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}gtag('js', new Date());gtag('config', 'G-JDL432L36C', {'anonymize_ip': false});</script><script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js" type="text/javascript"></script><style> body { -moz-font-feature-settings: "liga" on; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-feature-settings: "liga" on; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; } </style> <script src="https://app.enzuzo.com/scripts/cookiebar/e1f84fb6-480e-11ef-9760-878d54194d2c"></script> </head><body><div data-collapse="medium" data-animation="default" data-duration="400" data-w-id="ed231f65-848b-4718-7100-c66d8d1bff5b" data-easing="ease" data-easing2="ease" role="banner" class="navigation_home w-nav"><div class="navigation-container"><a href="/" class="logo w-inline-block"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60856cc8099cd28b8e2a01c9_L%26D_LOGO_TRANS.png" data-w-id="ed231f65-848b-4718-7100-c66d8d1bff5e" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 96.5390625px, (max-width: 767px) 112.6328125px, 144.8125px" srcset="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60856cc8099cd28b8e2a01c9_L%26D_LOGO_TRANS-p-500.png 500w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60856cc8099cd28b8e2a01c9_L%26D_LOGO_TRANS-p-800.png 800w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60856cc8099cd28b8e2a01c9_L%26D_LOGO_TRANS-p-1080.png 1080w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60856cc8099cd28b8e2a01c9_L%26D_LOGO_TRANS.png 1815w" alt="" class="image-logo"/></a><a data-w-id="ad5ff182-d0d2-b5d3-3754-a84ec72f8917" href="https://www.lossanddamagecollaboration.org/loss-and-damage-at-cop29" class="l-d_at_cop29 w-button">Loss & Damage at COP29</a><nav role="navigation" class="nav-menu w-nav-menu"><a href="/about" class="navigation-link w-inline-block"><div class="navigation-link-text">About Us</div><div class="navigation-hover"></div></a><a href="/news" class="navigation-link w-inline-block"><div class="navigation-link-text">News</div><div data-w-id="ed231f65-848b-4718-7100-c66d8d1bff6b" class="navigation-hover"></div></a><div data-hover="false" data-delay="0" data-w-id="c5000e2a-0110-bb1d-fd33-79a44147ad7f" class="dropdown-2 w-dropdown"><div class="dropdown-toggle-2 w-dropdown-toggle"><div class="icon-5 w-icon-dropdown-toggle"></div><div class="text-block-40">Our Work</div></div><nav class="dropdown-list-2 w-dropdown-list"><a href="/advocacy-and-outreach-project" data-w-id="f1cc82e5-0d4b-b669-cf66-00bf57036e54" class="drop_downlink_a-o w-inline-block"><div data-w-id="f1cc82e5-0d4b-b669-cf66-00bf57036e55" class="dropdown_link_text">Advocacy and Outreach</div></a><a href="/art-and-culture" data-w-id="f8b94361-5750-5468-61db-df513bcf2300" class="drop_downlink_air w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Art and Culture</div></a><a href="/loss-and-damage-finance-project" class="drop_downlink_finance w-inline-block"><div data-w-id="de108baa-bedd-2a7f-5e63-deef1d1111da" class="dropdown_link_text">Finance</div></a><a href="/ldyc" data-w-id="2abea0f2-7cf8-1b2e-d267-fb2375246e2c" class="ldyc_ddl w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Loss and Damage Youth Coalition</div></a><a href="/human-mobility-displacement-and-loss-and-damage" data-w-id="d2986f21-66cb-a5b9-9468-25926a1e8408" class="hm_disp w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Human Mobility and Displacement</div></a><a href="/loss-and-damage-and-human-rights" data-w-id="ef75b2d6-6d07-23b8-9336-335843b29665" class="hr_menu w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Human Rights</div></a><a href="/non-economic-loss-and-damage-project" data-w-id="57b8db75-d2b6-acff-9f59-9dc06432cda5" class="drop_downlink_neld w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Non-Economic Loss and Damage</div></a><a href="/loss-and-damage-collaboration-publications" data-w-id="fd208f2f-8866-603a-0430-4464837aadd6" class="drop_downlink_our_pubs w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Our Publications</div></a><a href="/santiago-network-project" class="drop_downlink_3 w-inline-block"><div data-w-id="104dae65-cd4a-5f17-b79c-cbd9571422bb" class="dropdown_link_text">Santiago Network</div></a><a href="/support-centre" data-w-id="e05057b6-d05d-8221-10b3-cfe7e7f7e796" class="drop_downlink_sc w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Support Centre</div></a><a href="/the-new-generation" data-w-id="19e7713b-2e54-ea03-786f-54b751d169a1" class="ddm_ng w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">The New Generation</div></a><a href="/wellbeing" data-w-id="b64f6096-1854-be77-6ab8-5aa7cadd1a6b" class="wellbeing_menu w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Wellbeing</div></a></nav></div><a href="/impact-report-2024" class="navigation-link w-inline-block"><div class="navigation-link-text">Our Impact</div><div data-w-id="84a6c551-4182-f26b-6d6f-d57431c6b048" class="navigation-hover"></div></a><div data-hover="false" data-delay="0" data-w-id="d192fe2d-2afc-ff90-2382-8ad1392eee97" class="dropdown-2 w-dropdown"><div class="dropdown-toggle-2 w-dropdown-toggle"><div class="icon-5 w-icon-dropdown-toggle"></div><div class="text-block-40">Library</div></div><nav class="dropdown-list-3 w-dropdown-list"><a href="/events" class="drop_downlink_events w-inline-block"><div data-w-id="d192fe2d-2afc-ff90-2382-8ad1392eeea4" class="dropdown_link_text">Events</div></a><a href="/roster-of-loss-and-damage-experts" class="drop_downlink_experts w-inline-block"><div data-w-id="31fd6dd1-6145-3732-145b-d67ee9d04e31" class="dropdown_link_text">Experts</div></a><a href="/publications" data-w-id="d192fe2d-2afc-ff90-2382-8ad1392eee9d" class="drop_downlink_publications w-inline-block"><div data-w-id="d192fe2d-2afc-ff90-2382-8ad1392eee9e" class="dropdown_link_text">Publications</div></a><a href="/stories" data-w-id="d192fe2d-2afc-ff90-2382-8ad1392eeea0" class="drop_downlink_stories w-inline-block"><div class="dropdown_link_text">Stories</div></a></nav></div><a href="/whatislossanddamage" class="navigation-link w-inline-block"><div class="navigation-link-text">What is Loss & Damage?</div><div class="navigation-hover"></div></a></nav><div class="menu-button w-nav-button"><div class="icon-2 w-icon-nav-menu"></div></div><a data-w-id="a6868f49-5ab9-9e24-a58a-46849ee3ed03" href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-mobilise-the-trillions?attribution_id=sl:9be37c27-655e-4f13-8c6c-6dc632de586b&utm_campaign=man_ss_icons&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link" class="donate_button w-button">Donate</a></div><div class="button-wraper"><a data-w-id="99b86ac1-edd7-c0ee-7344-08864fe6cf91" href="/take-action" class="take-action-button w-button">TAKE ACTION!</a></div><a href="/search-page" class="search_icon w-inline-block"><div class="navigation-link-text"></div><div class="div-block-44"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/615c61a0b9cd56a41dc6d69f_1024px-Search_Icon.svg.png" loading="lazy" data-w-id="e2b86375-9c53-633c-7b0c-8f97778cd9c6" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 35px" alt="" srcset="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/615c61a0b9cd56a41dc6d69f_1024px-Search_Icon.svg-p-500.png 500w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/615c61a0b9cd56a41dc6d69f_1024px-Search_Icon.svg-p-800.png 800w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/615c61a0b9cd56a41dc6d69f_1024px-Search_Icon.svg.png 1024w" class="image-27"/></div></a></div><div class="title-section cc-detail"><div class="container"><h2 class="h2 cc-title-section">Stories</h2><div class="posts-wrapper"><div class="posts-collection-list-wrapper w-dyn-list"><div class="w-dyn-empty"><div>No items found.</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="footer"><div class="container-footer"><div class="container"><div class="top-section"><a href="#" class="logo cc-footer w-inline-block"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60586fe3d70bd30de860b73f_LD_LOGO%2038.jpg" sizes="100vw" srcset="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60586fe3d70bd30de860b73f_LD_LOGO%2038-p-800.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60586fe3d70bd30de860b73f_LD_LOGO%2038-p-1080.jpeg 1080w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60586fe3d70bd30de860b73f_LD_LOGO%2038-p-1600.jpeg 1600w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/60586fe3d70bd30de860b73f_LD_LOGO%2038.jpg 1903w" alt="" class="image-logo"/></a><div class="footer-small-text">© 2018 Noiceland™, all rights reserved</div></div></div><div class="separator-footer"><div class="separator-color footer-line"></div></div><div class="container"><div class="bottom"><div class="bottom-1"><div data-delay="0" data-hover="false" class="dropdown w-dropdown"><div class="dropdown-toggle w-dropdown-toggle"><div class="icon w-icon-dropdown-toggle"></div><div>Category</div></div><nav class="dropdown-list w-dropdown-list"><div class="w-dyn-list"><div role="list" class="w-dyn-items"><div role="listitem" class="dropdown-link w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/publications" class="dropdown-link-text">Publications</a></div><div role="listitem" class="dropdown-link w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/stories" aria-current="page" class="dropdown-link-text w--current">Stories</a></div><div role="listitem" class="dropdown-link w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/events" class="dropdown-link-text">Events</a></div><div role="listitem" class="dropdown-link w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/wellbeing" class="dropdown-link-text">Wellbeing</a></div></div></div></nav></div><div class="footer-categories"><div class="footer-title-text">Categories</div><div class="footer-links-container cc-categories"><div class="w-dyn-list"><div role="list" class="collection-list w-dyn-items"><div role="listitem" class="footer-collection-item w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/events" class="link-footer">Events</a></div><div role="listitem" class="footer-collection-item w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/publications" class="link-footer">Publications</a></div><div role="listitem" class="footer-collection-item w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/stories" aria-current="page" class="link-footer w--current">Stories</a></div><div role="listitem" class="footer-collection-item w-dyn-item"><a href="/category/wellbeing" class="link-footer">Wellbeing</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="footer-newsletter"><div class="footer-title-text">Subscribe to newsletter</div><div class="form-block w-form"><form id="email-form" name="email-form" data-name="Email Form" method="get" class="form" data-wf-page-id="621e103a77591319a64df868" data-wf-element-id="190e697a-0bc0-0823-8fe0-3b7d324eaad1"><input class="text-field w-input" maxlength="256" name="Email-3" data-name="Email 3" placeholder="Email address" type="email" id="Email-3" required=""/><input type="submit" data-wait="Please wait..." class="submit-button w-button" value="Send"/></form><div class="w-form-done"><div>Thank you! Your submission has been received!</div></div><div class="w-form-fail"><div>Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.</div></div></div></div></div><div class="bottom-2"><div class="footer-links-container"><div class="footer-links"><div class="footer-title-text">Information</div><div class="footer-links-inner"><a href="/about" class="nav-link white">about</a><a href="http://blog-b132a3.webflow.io/about#contact" class="nav-link white">contact</a><a href="#" class="nav-link white">terms</a></div></div><div class="footer-links"><div class="footer-title-text">follow us</div><div class="footer-links-inner"><a href="#" class="nav-link white">instagram</a><a href="#" class="nav-link white">facebook</a><a href="#" class="nav-link white">twitter</a></div></div><div class="footer-links"><div class="footer-title-text">Template</div><div class="footer-links-inner"><a href="/image-license-info" class="nav-link white">Image License Info</a><a href="https://webflow.com/" class="nav-link white">Powered by Webflow</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><script src="https://d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.net/js/jquery-3.5.1.min.dc5e7f18c8.js?site=605869242b20501f9a579e7a" type="text/javascript" integrity="sha256-9/aliU8dGd2tb6OSsuzixeV4y/faTqgFtohetphbbj0=" crossorigin="anonymous"></script><script src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/605869242b20501f9a579e7a/js/webflow.cfff8f4f2.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/typed.js@2.0.9"></script> <script> var typed4 = new Typed('.typed-text', { strings: ['This is loss and damage.','When climate change causes...', 'A loss of life.', 'The loss of culture.', 'Biodiversity loss.', 'A loss of territory.', 'And the loss of livelihoods.', 'As well as costly damage to infrastructure.', 'Like homes, hospitals, schools and roads.', 'And sadly much more...', 'The economic cost in developing countries...', 'Is projected to be 290-580 billion USD by 2030.', 'Not including the non-economic costs.', 'These costs have increased significantly due to COVID-19.', 'Households on the frontlines of climate change…', 'In vulnerable developing countries...', 'Bear most of the costs of reducing and addressing loss and damage.', 'We are trying to change that.', 'By ensuring that vulnerable people, communities and countries.','Have the support they need to...', 'Prepare for a warmer world.', 'And continue to develop and thrive.',], typeSpeed: 75, backSpeed: 10, bindInputFocusEvents: true, loop: true, cursorChar: '_', backDelay: 1000, startDelay: 100 }); </script> </body></html>