Warsaw International Mechanism for Climate Loss and Damage

Abstract

No one denies that the negative effects of climate change have become evident to all in recent years ,these negative effects are called losses and damages, so countries efforts in mitigating and even adapting to them are not enough,especially for developing contries.this issue has been of great importance in climate negotiations in recent years .

As a response from the international community to this issue, climate negotiations in 2013 led to the adoption of the warsaw international mechanism to face the losses and damages to mankind and the environment ,despite the great difference between the north and the south over the legal nature of this mechanism and the place it occupies in the international legal system for climate change .