This post reflects on a community-centred research journey into biodiversity and ecosystem loss in Derna, Libya, after Storm Daniel. It highlights the importance of listening to local voices, working through trusted local partnerships, and understanding how loss, resilience, and lived experience are shaped by both environmental change and everyday reality.
Bridging the Monastery and Bureaucracy: Climate Knowledge, Cultural Loss, and Adaptation in Mustang, Nepal
In Mustang, Nepal, monasteries are more than heritage sites: they anchor community life, preserve environmental memory, and shape responses to climate change. This post explores how monks interpret loss, navigate uncertainty, and reveal why adaptation planning must include cultural knowledge.
When the Wild Comes Home: The Hidden Ethics of Grassroots Loss and Damage Research
A reflective account of grassroots loss and damage research in Nyaminyami, exploring consent, silence, trust, and non-economic loss while showing why ethical, community-centred methods are essential for documenting climate impacts safely and meaningfully in vulnerable rural communities.
The Silent Loss of Food Traditions in Semi-Arid Bahia, Brazil: Lessons from Research on Climate and Food Culture
In Bahia’s semi-arid Bacia do Jacuípe, climate change erodes more than harvests. It quietly takes recipes, ingredients, and cooking practices that bind communities. This post reveals how shifting rains and crop losses undermine women’s knowledge, food culture, and local identities, and argues that protecting food traditions is central to climate justice and territorial resilience.
Navigating the Storm After the Storm: Reflections on Quantifying Loss and Damage in Dominica
Researcher’s reflections on loss and damage research
Addressing the climate finance gap through locally led country platform approach
There is an urgency of innovative and inclusive financing mechanisms that can streamline finance, enhance coordination, and empower frontline communities to shape their own resilience strategies. The catastrophic climate change impacts disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable people in LDCs and SIDS, who lack the resources to respond effectively.