Lisa Vanhala is Professor of Political Science at University College London. Her work on loss and damage governance, climate change litigation and environmental legal mobilization has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Global Environmental Politics and Global Environmental Change. She is also the author of Governing the End: The Making of Climate Change Loss and Damage focused on the UN. Elisa Calliari is a Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. She studies how policy makers at different governance scales understand and address climate change impacts beyond adaptation. Elisa is involved in loss and damage negotiations as member of the Italian and EU delegation at the UNFCCC.
'Loss and Damage has become the third pillar of international climate action. Crucially, we know little about how national contexts are embedding it in their domestic climate policy agenda. This insightful book offers an important comparative view of the domestic politics of Loss and Damage policymaking. The book is a must-read for those seeking a general theory and novel case studies on how national institutions and actors in the Global South have owned and adjusted to the issue of Loss and Damage in recent years.' Federica Genovese, University of Oxford 'This book shines a light on the reality of climate change. It documents what is being lost, who is in the firing line, and how this challenge is being tackled by governments large and small. Vanhala and Calliari have produced the authoritative source on how actions matter, from diplomats in corridors of power to fishers in the threatened islands of the Caribbean.' Neil Adger, University of Exeter