PERTES ET PRÉJUDICES LIÉS AUX DÉPLACEMENTS: MESSAGES CLÉS EN VUE DELA COP28

Ce document de plaidoyer appelle à intégrer les questions de déplacement des populations et de mobilité humaine dans les politiques et les pratiques relatives aux pertes et préjudices liés au changement climatique. Les messages ci-dessous ont été rédigés par un groupe de travail réuni à l’initiative de Loss and Damage Collaboration.

Published on October 16, 2023

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

Les déplacements, les migrations forcées et les autres formes de mobilité humaine involontaire doivent être au cœur de la lutte contre les pertes et préjudices liés au changement climatique. Les déplacements liés au climat portent atteinte aux droits humains, au bien-être et au développement, et entraînent un large éventail d’effets négatifs sur les individus, les communautés, les sociétés et les États – ce qui soulève des questions et des préoccupations importantes en matière de justice climatique. Les approches globales visant à lutter contre les pertes et préjudices liés au climat doivent s’efforcer d’éviter et de minimiser les effets négatifs des déplacements, et d’y apporter des solutions équitables et justes.

KEYWORDS: loss and damage; climate change; COP 28; displacement; 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.

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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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