Loss and Damage: How Can We Care for Our Communities So We Don't Lose What We Love Most?

This booklet is created especially for children and young people. It grew out of research carried out in Jardim Pantanal (São Paolo, Brazil), Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya) and Kalibaru (Jakarta, Indonesia).

We wanted to understand how climate change is affecting people’s lives, especially the lives of those who live in neighbourhoods built by the communities themselves. The book explains how climate change brings loss and damage, and that communities in what is  known as the Global South are among those hardest hit. But it also presents what solutions are already available if communities get involved and organize themselves, how they can gain more support and open up new possibilities.

The book shows that the future is not set in stone: It can be transformed when neighbours, governments and people around the world come together. Because every child has the right to live in a safe place, with health, hope and dignity.