Loss and Damage (L&D) due to climate change primarily from human activity has become a key focus for this generation. On January 12, 2023, NASA warned that 2022 was the fifth warmest year on record and noted that the trend was alarming. In July 2023, CNN recorded that the first week of July saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded. More recently, in September 2023, the United Nations indicated that implementation must accelerate to increase ambition across all fronts, taking an all of society approach to respond to the climate crisis. The reality is that as the global temperature rises, domino effects occur across societies. As the climate gets warmer, forest fires intensify, the ocean gets warmer, sea levels rise, artic sea ice melts, ocean acidification increases, and droughts begin to intensify. Yet despite all this, efforts to completely cease activities to fuel this damage caused primarily by fossil fuels have been slow. L&D is particularly important following not only the breakthrough agreement on the funding for loss and damage achieved following the Conference of Parties (COP27) Conference but also the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released on March 20, 2023, that stresses the climate bomb present and the need for climate action on all fronts. Therefore the priority of climate action is urgent. Today the question is no longer about living in a sustainable world but survival of the world we live in. This notion of existence and survival will be explored as I compare the loss and damage due to climate change being experienced in small islands looking at the case of the Caribbean versus the Pacific Islands and in coastal cities where I look at the case of for example, Bordeaux versus Venice. To do so, I will be applying the concept of Energy Justice, which is a theory that aims to foster a more equitable and sustainable future by looking at for instance: the way decision makers engage with society; the allocation of environmental ills; repairing any harm done; assigning responsibility; understanding different vulnerabilities of communities; and finally the global (cosmopolitan) justice principle that we are all citizens of the world and our responsibilities do not stop at our national borders. This research is original as, while there is a lot of energy justice and climate change literature, there is limited research connecting these issues on the vital area of loss and damage.