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Loss and damage is a relative newcomer to the climate change agenda. It has the potential to reinvigorate existing mitigation and adaptation efforts, but this will ultimately require leadership from developed countries and enhanced understanding of several key issues, such as limits to adaptation.

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  1. International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Independent University, Bangladesh, Aftabuddin Road, Bashundhara, 1229, Bangladesh
    Saleemul Huq, Erin Roberts & Adrian Fenton
  2. Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand Campus, London, WC2R 2LS, UK
    Erin Roberts
  3. Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    Adrian Fenton
  4. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
    Adrian Fenton

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  2. Erin Roberts
  3. Adrian Fenton

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Huq, S., Roberts, E. & Fenton, A. Loss and damage.Nature Clim Change 3, 947–949 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2026

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