DAÑOS Y PÉRDIDAS Y DESPLAZAMIENTO: MENSAJES CLAVE PARA AVANZAR HACIA LA COP 28

Este informe de promoción reclama la transversalización del desplazamiento poblacional y otros tipos de movilidad humana en las políticas y prácticas destinadas a abordar las pérdidas y daños asociados al cambio climático.

Published on October 16, 2023

Loss and Damage and Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group | idrp, IDPs, Disaster, Climate, United Nations

Pakistan. Drowning in despair. 2022 © Jamil Akhtar CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0

El desplazamiento, la migración forzosa y otras formas de movilidad humana involuntaria deben ser una de las piezas clave en la gestión de las pérdidas y los daños relacionados con el cambio climático. El desplazamiento por motivos climáticos socava los derechos humanos, el bienestar y el desarrollo, lo que provoca todo tipo de efectos adversos en las personas, las comunidades, las sociedades y los Estados y plantea preguntas y dudas serias sobre la justicia climática. Cualquier enfoque para afrontar las pérdidas y los daños vinculados al cambio climático que pretenda ser completo debe tratar de evitar y minimizar las repercusiones negativas del desplazamiento y aportar soluciones justas y equitativas.

KEYWORDS: pérdidas y daños; cambio climático; COP 28; desplazamiento; climate justice

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This advocacy brief is co-published by the Loss and Damage Collaboration and Researching Internal Displacement. It can be found also on the Loss and Damage Collaboration webpage.

The Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement working group is a coalition of practitioners, researchers, lawyers and activists working on human mobility at local, national and global levels. Representing a broad cross-section of voices, perspectives and interests, participants in the working group share the common conviction that climate change-related displacement must be central to efforts to assess and address loss and damage impacts, including cascading and intergenerational impacts on individuals, communities, societies and ecosystems.

Image Credits

1. Cover image: Drowning in Despair, by Jamil Akhtar via the World Meteorological Organization (7289), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Description: Residents of a village in District Sanghar in Sindh Province of Pakistan, gather to collect some emergency ration supplies after the devastating flood of 2022. This year has also had its share of floods, albeit slightly less than the previous year. Experts warn that this will probably become an annual occurrence. Pakistan has one of the smallest carbon footprints in the world while suffering from the worst effects of climate change and almost no disaster preparedness.

2. Loss and Damage Collaboration logo: Sundarbans web, by the European Space Agency, Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2016), processed by ESA, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

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