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Find the recording on this workshop on Youtube here. 

Background

In the Caribbean, the escalating impacts of climate change have led to significant economic and non-economic losses, heightening vulnerability across small island states. As hurricanes intensify, coastal erosion accelerates, and sea levels rise, the imperative to systematically address and report on loss and damage (L&D) has never been greater. Strengthening institutional frameworks and governance mechanisms is essential for enhancing resilience, improving response and recovery capacity, and ensuring that national policies align with sustainable development goals.

The enhanced transparency framework of the Paris Agreement presents a critical opportunity for Caribbean nations to improve their capacity to report on L&D. However, with countries submitting this information for the first time in their Biennial Transparency Reports (BTRs), gaps in data availability, assessment methodologies, and institutional coordination remain. Countries will need to establish governance and methodologies to assess, quantify, and project L&D, in addition to strengthening their monitoring and reporting capacities at the national and international levels. Addressing these challenges requires regional collaboration, knowledge sharing, and mutual support, ensuring that reporting systems evolve to provide accurate and actionable insights over time.

Governance structures must facilitate comprehensive assessment, quantification, and projection of L&D impacts, helping governments and stakeholders integrate these insights into national adaptation strategies. By linking these actions to broader adaptation efforts, countries can generate synergies that enhance resilience and drive effective policy responses.

In response to this urgent need, CBIT-GSP and the RCC Caribbean will convene a virtual workshop to foster dialogue on institutional arrangements and governance for L&D management and reporting. The session will feature discussions on key governance considerations, practical experiences from Caribbean nations, and pathways for enhancing transparency and reporting capabilities.

Objective

This virtual workshop aims to promote and facilitate the exchange of knowledge, good practices, and lessons learned among participating countries in the Climate Transparency Network to establish and maintain institutional arrangements and governance for the management and reporting of loss and damage information under the enhanced transparency framework of the Paris Agreement.

Audience and Language

The virtual workshop brings together CBIT-GSP focal points and thematic experts on adaptation and loss and damage from the Climate Transparency Network, as well as other experts related to the effects, risks, and vulnerabilities; design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of adaptation measures; efforts to avoid, minimize, and address L&D; and other actors related to cooperation, good practices, experiences, and lessons learned related to adaptation. The workshop will also include speakers from countries in the region, and experts and experts from the WIM Excom, RCC Caribbean, and, UNDRR.

This virtual workshop will be in English. 

Duration and Registration

It is expected that the virtual workshop will last 2 hours with sufficient timing dedicated to discussion and Q&A sessions.