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The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage: Governance challenges, tensions and opportunities

Nina Araneta-Alana

Alternative Law Journal2026https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x261434611article
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The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (‘FRLD’) marks a milestone as the first global mechanism for addressing climate impacts beyond mitigation and adaptation. This article analyses its evolving governance, political paradoxes and regional significance. While World Bank administration ensures early functionality, it also raises concerns over autonomy and access. The FRLD reflects demands for justice from vulnerable States but avoids liability or compensation language. To be located in the Philippines and shaped by Pacific leadership, it opens space to advance recognition of non-economic losses, pilot direct access and strengthen regional agency. The article argues that the FRLD’s legitimacy and future trajectory will hinge on governance choices that reconcile financial integrity with responsiveness to affected communities. The direction it takes in its formative years will determine whether it becomes another technocratic instrument of limited reach or a mechanism capable of advancing justice-oriented climate finance.

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@article{nina2026,
  title        = {{The Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage: Governance challenges, tensions and opportunities}},
  author       = {Nina Araneta-Alana},
  journal      = {Alternative Law Journal},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969x261434611},
}

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