Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley at COP27 in Egypt, November 7, 2022, asking, ‘When will leaders lead?’ Photo by UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose on Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0). A historic move was made at the beginning of this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP27), in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt: Loss and Damage (L&D) was finally added to the agenda. What is L&D, exactly? It covers the impacts of climate change that occur despite adaptation and mitigation efforts. “Loss” refers to the negative impacts for which reparatio…