Many vulnerable countries are also asking for a new category of international finance to be delivered for th" from climate change, a term which refers to the inevitable consequences of climate change which can no longer be adapted to. "What "loss and damage" recognises is that that"s beyond adaptation," says Harpreet K Paul, a human rights lawyer currently undertaking a PhD in climate justice at the University of Warwick. "You"ve just lost that territory. You"ve just lost the ability to farm on a particular area that ancestrally your community would have done."