Moderator: Rania Sharshr, IOM Director of Climate Action Division

Speakers: 

• Simon Kimaro, Youth delegate
• Carla Montesi, Director, Green Deal and Digital Agenda, DG INTPA, European Commission
• Loretta Hieber Girardet, Chief, Risk Knowledge, Monitoring and Capacity-building Branch, UNDRR

The side event aims to showcase a regional perspective to national and local climate action, adaptation planning and durable, green and climate-resilient solutions linked to human mobility in communities impacted by climate change. The event will reflect upon the interaction of topics such as data-driven early warning systems against climate risks, anticipatory action, disaster risk reduction, minimizing adverse drivers of migration in a gender-responsive, human rights-based, child-sensitive and inclusive way. It will also address the ways in which agroecology and other sustainable natural resource management as well as durable solutions constitute complementary adaptation strategies to disasters and climate change impacts, and their key role for vulnerable communities .  

The event will announce the forthcoming “Regional responses to climate displacements in sub-Saharan Africa” (RE2CLID) programme funded by the EU at the end of the event. 

The event will be an opportunity for panelists and attendees to discuss the multiple factors and solutions to displacement in the context of climate change at the local and transnational level. Examples of projects will allow for specific insights into concrete displacement situations.