The overarching objective of this project is to build partnerships between the Indonesian government and vulnerable communities experiencing loss and damages due to climate change, and to advance Indonesia’s interests in and claims for climate reparations through the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (hereafter, LDF). By taking a localised, socially inclusive and gender-sensitive approach and grounding this work in bottom-up approaches, this project will empower communities experiencing climate impacts to assert their stake in a global fund designed to compensate countries for loss and damages. CLICCC is delivered by a consortium of 15 researchers from one Australian university (Murdoch), four Indonesian universities and one Indonesian NGO. 

The project is organised around three themes: 1) inclusive development, 2) strengthening democracy, and 3) global governance and climate diplomacy. Our project measures loss and damages by working in partnership with four climate-crisis communities (coastal/upland, agrarian/pastoral) in Kalimantan, Central Java and Sumba. We critically evaluate the multi-scalar institutions through which decisions about loss will be made and examine how communities, NGOs, Indonesian governments can strategically utilise those institutions for compensation based on economic and non-economic community losses. Project outputs will include a framework for grounded analysis of climate loss, policy recommendations to prepare institutions and multi-scalar frameworks for strategic advocacy for state and non-state actors.  

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