POLICY BRIEFS

The short piece introduces Researching Internal Displacement’s new series on ‘Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence’. It also serves as the Preface to a collection of five articles in the series developed by experts at the Internal Displacement Research Programme (IDRP) of the Refugee Law Initiative in collaboration with the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons in relation to her 2025 Call for Inputs on this theme. You may download the collection by clicking on the “Download PDF Version” link near the bottom of the article page. We welcome new contributions to this series.

This paper explores how, with inclusive and transformative adaptation and mitigation planning and action, many of the losses and damages experienced in the climate change, rural livelihood and (im)mobility nexus can be reduced or avoided. It introduces a new guiding framework and toolkit developed for FAO by the authors.

This brief advocates for a ‘durable solutions’ approach within the UNFCCC to averting, minimising and addressing displacement in the context of climate change. With the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) now operationalised and the UNFCCC’s Loss and Damage landscape taking shape, this piece discusses how ‘durable solutions’ can serve to avert, minimise and address loss and damage associated with displacement.

Sustainable climate adaptation outcomes for people and places require policies that facilitate the ability to move and the resilience to stay. However, research into National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) has uncovered significant gaps in how human (im)mobility — which includes displacement, migration, planned relocation, and immobility — is addressed. This short piece looks at how and why human (im)mobility is insufficiently mainstreamed into national climate adaptation planning and identifies opportunities to close these gaps.

This advocacy brief, originally co-published on September 15, 2023 by the Loss and Damage Coalition and Researching Internal Displacement, is now available in Arabic, French, Italian and Spanish translations, which may be downloaded via the links below. The English edition has been accepted as a formal submission to the UNFCCC Loss and Damage Transitional Committee.

This advocacy brief calls for the mainstreaming of population displacement, forced migration and other forms of involuntary human mobility into policy and practice addressing loss and damage related to climate change. The messages in this brief are directly relevant to ongoing Loss and Damage negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the lead-up to COP 28.