Loss and Damage: Who Pays for Climate Change in Central America?

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Those responsible for the climate crisis are not always the ones most affected by it. For example, Central America as a region emits only a tiny proportion of the world’s greenhouse gasses - but the people there are suffering particularly badly from the consequences of climate change. A new international fund aims to help rectify this injustice. We talk to experts from the region and from global climate policy about the “Loss & Damage Fund”. Its vision: direct financial aid given to the communities, affected groups, indigenous peoples and those most impacted by climate change, should ensure that support really gets to where it is needed. A podcast with: - Adrián Martinez Blanco, Director of the NGO La Ruta del Clima - Liane Schalatek, Deputy Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington Office - Ingrid Hausinger, Program Coordinator for Ecology at the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s El Salvador Office Links: In this fateful year of public climate financing, a quantum leap must be made - Liane Schalatek: https://www.boell.de/en/2024/06/18/im-schicksalsjahr-fuer-die-oeffentliche-klimafinanzierung-muss-der-quantensprung-von-den (Boell.org 2024) The Loss and Damage Financial Landscape. An in depth report by the Boell Stiftung published in 2023: https://us.boell.org/en/2023/05/11/loss-and-damage-finance-landscape La Ruta Del Clima, a Climate Change NGO based in Costa Rica: https://larutadelclima.org/