Task Force on Displacement Stakeholder Meeting “Recommendations for integrated approaches to avert, minimize and address displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change”

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On behalf of the Task Force on Displacement, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) organized a Stakeholder Meeting on “Recommendations for integrated approaches to avert, minimize and address displacement related to the adverse impacts of climate change”. The meeting brought together the Members of the Task Force as well as key stakeholders working on the human mobility and climate change nexus. The aim of the meeting was to take stock of progress under the different areas of the Task Force's workplan and inform the development of the integrated recommendations that will be presented at COP24 in Katowice, Poland. The meeting was organized with the financial support of the Federal Government of Germany.

Listen to the messages of stakeholders presented at the 24th Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Poland:

 

External Submissions to the Task Force on Displacement Stakeholder Meeting

Targeted Submissions:
ActionAid International, CARE International and Refugees International - joint submission
Changemaker Norway submission
Mary Robinson Foundation for Climate Justice (MRFCJ) submission
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) submission
Oxfam submission
RESAMA submission
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification submission
World Trade Institute submission

Relevant Documentation:

Alaska Institute for Justice
Climate Change, Displacement and community relocation: Lessons from Alaska
Rights, Resilience and Community-led Relocation
 
Centre international de droit comparé de l’environnement (CIDCE)/International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law
Universal Declaration on Environmentally-Displaced Persons
Projet de convention relative au statut des déplacés environnementaux
L’urgence d’un statut des déplacés environnementaux en droit international
 
Deltares
Water, Peace and Security
 
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Labour migration, climate change and decent work
 
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
Addressing human rights protection gaps in the context of migration and displacement of persons across international borders resulting from the adverse effects of climate change and supporting the adaptation and mitigation plans of developing countries to bridge the protection gaps
Summary of the panel discussion on human rights, climate change, migrants and persons displaced across international borders
The slow onset effects of climate change and human rights protection for cross-border migrants
OHCHR’s key messages on human rights, climate change and migration
Principles and Guidance, supported by practical guidance, on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations
Principles and guidance on the human rights protection of migrants in vulnerable situations
 
Raoul Wallenberg Institute and the Stockholm Environmental Institute
Regional baseline study on the integration of human rights in the nationally determined contributions in Asia-Pacific to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change
 
Refugees International
Recommendations for Integrated Approaches to Avert, Minimize and Address Displacement Related to the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change: Integrating Climate Displacement Risk into National Laws and Policies
Accelerating Threats from Climate Change: Disasters and Displacement in Myanmar
Philippines: Post-Typhoon Resettlement plan carriers risk 
 
Tamara Wood, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at the Faculty of Law, UNSW
The potential role of free movement agreements in addressing climate change-related movement in Africa
 
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Building Capacities of Women to Enhance Adaptive Capacity of Migrant-Sending Households in Udayapur District, Nepal: Process Documentation and Learning
 
Wetlands International
Water Shocks: Wetlands and Human Migration in the Sahel_Fact Sheet
Water Shocks: Wetlands and Human Migration in the Sahel

Updates

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Task Force Workplan Outputs FULL REPORTS

Title
I. Policy/Practice – National/Subnational WIM TFD Activity I.1 National policies mapping - Full report
I. Policy/Practice – National/Subnational WIM TDF Activity I.2 Slow onset state of knowledge - Full report
II. Policy - International/Regional WIM TFD Activity II.2 International policies mapping - Full report
II. Policy - International/Regional WIM TDF Activity II.3 UN mandates mapping - Full report
II. Policy - International/Regional WIM TFD Activity II.4 Tools and guidance mapping - Full report
III. Data and assessment WIM TFD Activities III.1-3 Data and risk assessment - Full report

Summary Reports

Title
I. Policy/Practice – National/Subnational WIM TFD Activity I.1 National policies mapping - Summary report
I. Policy/Practice – National/Subnational WIM TDF Activity I.2 Slow onset state of knowledge - Summary report
II. Policy - International/Regional WIM TFD Activity II.2 International policies mapping - Summary report
II. Policy - International/Regional WIM TDF Activity II.3 UN mandate mapping - Summary report
II. Policy - International/Regional WIM TFD Activity II.4 Tools and guidance mapping - Summary report
III. Data and assessment WIM TFD Activities III.1-3 Data and risk assessment - Summary report

Key Documents

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Concept Note
Call for Submissions
Meeting Agenda
Background Paper
Information Note for Participants
Task Force on Displacement Workplan
Participants List