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Tackling the Challenge of Climate Change Human Mobility - Messages from the Task Force on Displacement Stakeholder Meeting

 

At the 24th Climate Change Conference (COP24), taking place between 3 - 14 December in Katowice, Poland, UNFCCC Parties will consider migration issues. IOM together with the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) organized in May 2018 a Stakeholder Meeting on behalf of the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement to gather inputs for Parties’ consideration. Listen to the main takeaways and messages from the meeting, which were presented at COP24.

 

For more information, visit the IOM Environmental Migration Portal and the PDD website.

 

 

A Conversation with Dina Ionesco

What's the link between migration, the environment, and climate change? We asked our Head of MECC Division, Dina Ionesco, at the IOM Council 2018.

Talking Migration Data: Human mobility and climate change in South America

Luiza Pallone, Researcher at the South American Network for Environmental Migrations (RESAMA), shares her views on human mobility and climate change in South America.

Visit the Migration Data Portal: https://migrationdataportal.org/blog/talking-migration-data-human-mobility-and-climate-change-south-america 

Latest figures about environmental migration

Climate change is causing major environmental changes across the globe, often with severe and irreversible impacts upon people’s lives. In such conditions, migration can be an adaptive solution, empowering people to find new solutions to living sustainable lives in new areas. In other situations, climate change drives forced displacement through event such as extreme storms, hurricanes, floods and droughts. This video provides the latest data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the World Bank.

Four things you might not know about environmental migration

All over the globe, people are moving internally within countries, as well as across borders and internationally. Much of this migration is driven by climate change: climate change may directly force movement due to disaster displacement events such as floods and hurricanes. Climate change may also result in longer term effects, such as droughts, sea level rise, environmental degradation. When the environment is unable to sustain livelihoods, people move in search of new opportunities. Migration can be a solution to climate change adaptation.

Pacific Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change

IOM has been spearheading initiatives across the Pacific to slow the effects of coastal erosion, including the construction of seawalls to attenuate the crushing tides and reinforcing infrastructure. Rebuilding more solid homes for Micronesians who lost theirs during Typhoon Maysak fits those efforts. In February 2018, IOM, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement, organized a regional workshop for Pacific Island States, opening an environment in which policymakers could strengthen their understanding of key issues around human mobility in the context of disasters and climate change. Read more in ‘After the Storm’: https://features.iom.int/stories/afte... For more information about IOM's work on the links between climate change, environment and migration visit: www.environmentalmigration.iom.int

Why A Multipronged Approach is Necessary to Address Environmental Migration

On the occasion of World Environment Day 2018, Jorge Galindo sat down with Dina Ionesco to talk about the evolution of IOM's work on the nexus between migration, climate change and the environment over the years, and why it is important to include this nexus in the upcoming Global Compact for Migration.

Madagascar: Climate Change and Migration

In Madagascar, social and environmental changes have driven many to migrate. In response, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) Development Fund is providing support to the Government of Madagascar to raise awareness on the interdependence of migration and environmental changes. 

Addressing Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Migration

In the margins of the High-level Panel organized on 30 November 2017 at the 108th Session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) entitled ‘Opportunities to Address Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration’, panelists gave their inputs. The Panel aimed to show that the international community can no longer design migration policy without taking into account the environmental state of our planet and its impacts on all policy areas.
 

 With the participation of:

Amb. William Lacy Swing, Director General of IOM
Amb. Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General of IOM
Mr. Nicolas Hulot, Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition of France
Amb. Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in Geneva and Chief Negotiator for the COP23 Presidency
Prof. Walter Kaelin, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD)
Ms. Keiko Kiyama, Co-President of the Japan Emergency NGO and Executive Director of Japan Platform

I08th IOM Council: High-Level Panel Discussion on Opportunities to Address Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

Panel participants:

  • Nicolas Hulot, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition, France
  • Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations and Chief Negotiator for the COP23 Presidency
  • Keiko Kiyama, Co-President of Japan Emergency NGO (JEN), Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Japan Platform, Japan

Moderator: William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM

You can find more information on the High-Level Panel Discussion on Opportunities to Address Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at the following links:

 

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