What is the migration link with environment and climate change and how does this impact the achievement of our global goals? 

IOM Director General, António Vitorino, delivers a support message for the Midnight Survival Deadline for the Climate, launched by the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) in October 2020. He calls for the submission of updated and ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) by the UN deadline, midnight of 31 December 2020, and highlights the impacts of climate change on migration.

A webinar organized by SLYCAN Trust on climate change, migration, displacement, the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage, and the Task Force on Displacement.

Speakers:

• Miwa Kato, Programme Officer, Loss and Damage Unit, UNFCCC Secretariat
• Atle Solberg, Head of the Secretariat, Platform on Disaster Displacement 
• Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, Senior Expert in Migration, Environment and Climate Change at the IOM
• Dennis Mombauer, Director Research and Education, SYLCAN Trust

How is the issue of human mobility in the context of disasters, environmental degradation and climate change treated in the global policy debate (including the Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC and the Task Force on Displacement)?

Moderator: Nina Birkeland, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)

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The co-migration of human and other species catalyzed by environmental change, including climate change, is anticipated to increase dramatically in the next decades. As calls mount for conservation to account for these trends, how will conservation practice be affected and what conflicts are likely to increase? 

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