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By Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group and the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility | Oct 31, 2024
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. It highlights the specific action points the FRLD and other UNFCCC stakeholder bodies, expert groups and organisations must take to support, prioritise and mainstream ‘durable solutions approaches’ in policy and practice. The brief also spotlights the critical deliverables for COP 29 required for ‘solutions’.
By Ann-Christine Link, Kees van der Geest and Steven Miron | Mar 6, 2024
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.
By Loss and Damage and Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group | Oct 11, 2023
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.
By Loss and Damage and Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group | Sep 14, 2023
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.
By Tasneem Siddiqui, Md. Ekhtekharul Islam and Tamim Billah | Mar 9, 2023
This paper highlights Bangladesh’s National Strategy on Internal Displacement Management, a rights-based approach to climate and disaster related displacement. It includes key elements of important international frameworks addressing displacement along with the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation. The policy, if successfully implemented, would integrate human mobility into Bangladesh’s climate change policy architecture and could serve as a model for other climate-vulnerable nations.