The 24th meeting of the ExCom will be held from 28 April to 1 May and will mark the first meeting of the body after the completion of the 3rd review of the WIM, which was concluded at COP30. It is also coming at a critical moment when climate impacts intensify, leading to escalated loss and damage, both extreme weather and slow-onset events. These impacts are felt most severely in vulnerable and developing countries, due to limited resources to take action at the scale and speed required.
LDYC welcomes the progress made by the ExCom through its key workstreams and the work of the expert groups and taskforce throughout the years, however we are still deeply concerned with the significant gaps that remain in translating knowledge products into accessible useful tools for actions on the ground, the disconnection of the ExCom within the loss and damage landscape that includes the funding arrangement, the Santiago Network and the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, and decreasing attention to loss and damage within the process of the global stocktake.
Based on the outcome of the WIM review, as well as the voices of developing countries and frontline communities on their needs, concerns, and priorities on loss and damage, including but not limited to the recent Sixth Board Meeting of the Santiago Network and Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage Board meetings, we are presenting our asks to the 24th WIM ExCom meeting.