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Loss and damage: How can culture and heritage loss be measured and addressed?

“A group of archaeologists, climate scientists and policy experts met at the University of East Anglia last week to discuss how unique cultures and heritage are fast disappearing because of climate change – and what can be done to properly measure and address this.

 

From the erosion of the Norfolk seaside to the inundation of ancestral desert land in Mauritania, climate change is already having a serious and often irreversible impact on people’s cultures and heritage.

 

Such impacts are one aspect of “loss and damage” - a term used to describe the consequences of climate change that can no longer be avoided, which tend to be heaped on vulnerable communities.”