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Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter
Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate
October 2017
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Updates
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| © IOM 2016 (Photo: Muse Mohammed)
Climate Migration at COP23
As COP23 starts on Monday, 6 November 2017 in Bonn, Germany, it is important to
continue bringing awareness of the migration implications of climate change,
one of the most tangible social consequences of the changing climate. The Fiji
presidency of COP23 highlights the plight of small island developing States
that are threatened by rising sea levels and more frequent and intense extreme
weather events. In many of these islands, populations have no other choice than
to migrate further inland to cope with the rising seas, and the relocation of
populations is also becoming more frequent. Throughout the world, millions of
people each year migrate to escape the ravages of land degradation or are
displaced due to storms and hurricanes.
Two years after the landmark COP21 Paris Agreement that called for States to
protect the rights of migrants and mandated the creation of the Task Force on
Displacement, COP23 represents the opportunity to take stock of the progress
accomplished at the policy and programmatic levels to respond to the complex
issue of climate migration. Over 15 events dedicated to climate migration and
displacement will take place during the two-week negotiations. IOM co-organizes
six of these events (see UNFCCC COP23 Side Events section below).
In particular, the One UN Event entitled “Climate-related Human Mobility:
Connecting the Dots to Implement the Paris Agreement”, co-organized by IOM and
UNHCR in partnership with nine other UN agencies, will aim at providing
recommendations to the Task Force on Displacement from a variety of thematic
angles: adaptation, human rights, development, protection, gender, land
degradation and agriculture. The multiplicity of analysis grids that can be
applied to the climate and migration nexus demonstrate that this topic is of
relevance to decision makers across all policy areas.
Join us at COP23 on 8 November 2017 at the side event!
IOM will also contribute to two One UN Exhibitions during COP23: Exhibition on
Decent Work and Green Growth and Exhibition on Sustainable Cities and
Communities.
Download the side event flyer |
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| Artist Josh Knowles explains the drawings capturing the discussions of the
PDD Advisory Committee meeting to
Ambassador Dr. Ulrich Seidenberger of Germany, Chair of PDD © PDD 2017
2nd Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Platform on Disaster Displacement
23-24 October 2017
Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland
The Platform on Disaster Displacement convened the second meeting of its
Advisory Committee on 23-24 October 2017 in Bogis-Bossey, Switzerland. The
event gathered more than 90 participants representing international and
regional organizations, research institutions, the academic sector,
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other civil society stakeholders from
all over the world, who play a key role in supporting the implementation of the
Platform’s work through their expert advice and activities on the ground.
This meeting provided an opportunity for the members of the Advisory Committee
to take stock of the progress made in the first year of the Platform’s work,
share information about their ongoing activities, and exchange on future
opportunities for partnerships in their respective regions. Given their key
role in the implementation of the Platform’s workplan, IOM and UNHCR also
updated the Advisory Committee on their work since the launch of the Platform
in July 2016.
The workshop addressed highly topical areas of work, such as the current work
undertaken by the UNFCCC WIM Excom Task Force on Displacement, efforts to
integrate disaster and climate change related considerations in the Global
Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and the Global Compact on
Refugees, ongoing joint work on developing guidelines to support the
integration of displacement and mobility into disaster risk reduction
strategies, and efforts to strengthen data collection and research on
cross-border disaster displacement and human mobility in the context of climate
change.
The recommendations formulated by the Advisory Committee were presented to the
Steering Group of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and will help to inform
the work of the Platform in the coming months.
The report of the meeting will be made available soon on the websites of the
Platform on Disaster Displacement and of the International Organization for
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| A typical Mongolian ger in Selenge Province, Mongolia. © IOM 2016
Launch of the project "Understanding and Managing Internal Migration in
Mongolia"
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
11-12 October 2017
IOM Mongolia hosted the inception workshop and the first project steering
committee meeting under the project “Understanding and Managing Internal
Migration in Mongolia” in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from 11 to 12 October 2017.
The project is supported by the Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC), and will
be implemented for 18 months.
Mongolia already experiences dramatic rural to urban migration as a result of
several development factors, some of which are linked to climate change, such
as declining livelihood opportunities in rural areas amplified by drought and
dzuds. Rural migrants generally settle in Ger districts on the outskirts of
Ulaanbaatar. The rapid growth of the population in these areas has outpaced the
government’s ability to provide basic services such as running water,
sanitation, and sewage, healthcare and education. Limited data on migration
trends and drivers of migration contribute to the lack of evidence-based
policies and programmes and constrain government capacity to effectively manage
migration and support migrants in informal settlements. This project aims to
support the Government of Mongolia in improving the management of internal
migration through an assessment of key push and pull factors of migration,
including an analysis of environmental drivers. The project will also enhance
the capacity of government agencies and relevant stakeholders, and support
policy dialogue and awareness raising initiatives.
These two initial meetings brought together government officials from the
Ministry of Environment and Tourism and the Ulaanbaatar Municipality as well as
project partners – the National University of Mongolia (NUM), Ger Community
Mapping Center (GCMC) and SDC – to introduce the project, discuss the work plan
and clarify the role of each of the partner organizations and collaboration
structures in the long term. Next steps include defining the research
methodology and implementing data collection.
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| © Impacts World 2017Impacts World 2017:
Climate Change and Human Migration
Potsdam, Germany
12 October 2017
Key findings and evidence from the MECLEP global research project were
presented at the second Impacts World 2017 conference on climate change. The
conference was organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research
(PIK).
Susanne Melde, Senior Analyst at IOM´s Global Migration Data Analyst Centre,
spoke at the panel on climate change and human migration, where she presented
MECLEP´s comparative approach and its policy implications. Representatives on
the panel from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC), the Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade at Leibniz
University and the European Commission provided new evidence from Southeast
Asia, the latest science on climate change impacts on health and migration, and
discussed the opportunities presented by the two global compacts for migrants
and on refugees and the Task Force on Displacement under the UNFCCC. The
panelists also discussed policy implications of their work and opportunities
for partnerships.
Impacts World is a leading international conference covering the diversity and
depth of climate-impacts research today. The conference brought together 450
participants from 68 countries of various scientific backgrounds. The three-day
conference comprised of plenary sessions, workshops, and an interactive poster
session, giving the opportunity to the participants and the audience to
interact.
Download the presentations: Impacts World 2017
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Research Database Updates
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| Research Handbook on Climate Change, Migration and the Law
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| Forced Migration Review - Latin America and the Caribbean: Building on a
Tradition of Protection |
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| Spaces of Vulnerability and Areas Prone to Natural Disaster and Crisis in
Six Southern African Development Community Countries
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| Climate Change, Vulnerability and Migration
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| Migración, Ambiente Y Cambio Climático: Estudios de Caso en América del Sur
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| Water and Migration: How Far Would You Go For Water? |
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| Search the database |
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UNFCCC COP23 Side Events on Migration
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| Bonn, Germany
6 to 17 November 2017
Climate fragility risks in the Asia-Pacific Region
6 November 2017 | 17h00 to 18h00 | Japanese Pavilion
National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) and Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (MOFA) of Japan
The adverse effects of climate change on human mobility: Opportunities for
averting, minimizing and addressing displacement
7 November 2017 | 10h30 to 11h15 | German Pavilion
Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD) and BMZ
Addressing climate-induced displacement/migration and non-economic L&D in the
Asia–Pacific region
7 November 2017 | 16h45 to 18h15 | Meeting Room 11
ActionAid International, Bread for the World, CEN, WCC, CANSA
Climate-related human mobility: Connecting the dots to implement the Paris
Agreement
8 November 2017 | 13h15 to 14h45 | Meeting Room 12
IOM and UNHCR
Just transition for all and a human right based approach to climate action
8 November 2017 | 13h15 to 14h45 | Meeting Room 7
ILO with OHCHR, IOM, UNESCO, WHO, WFP, UN WOMEN
Displacement, human mobility and climate change
8 November 2017 | 11h30 to 13h00 | Meeting Room 7
NRC, COAST, OXFAM
Displacements induced by El Niño: a public health issue
8 November 2017 | 11h30 to 13h00 | Meeting Room 4
Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC) and University of Geneva
Limiting temperature rise to 1.5°C: Implications on food security, displacement
and migration
9 November 2017 | 18h30 to 20h00 | Meeting Room 7
ActionAid International, Bread for the World, CANSA, CEN, WCC
ONE UN – Land use including agriculture/forest
Climate action for food security: harvesting adaptation and mitigation benefits
in the land sector
9 November 2017 | 18h30 to 20h00 | Meeting Room 7
FAO with IFAD, WFP, UNESCO, IOM, UN WOMEN
From Science to action: Ocean and climate alliance
10 November 2017 | 11h30 to 13h00 | French Pavilion
Ocean and Climate Alliance
ONE UN – Oceans and coastal zones
Ocean and climate: A resilient ocean for future generations
11 November 2017 | 18h30 to 20h00 | French Pavilion
UN-Oceans with UNU, WHO, UNHCR, IOM, ESCAP, FAO, IAEA, IOC-UNESCO
Climate change-induced displacement
13 November 2017 | 16h00 to 17h30 | Moroccan Pavilion
CNDH, UNCCD and IOM
Migration as a climate change adaptation strategy: Impacts, challenges, and
potentials from a gender perspective
14 November 2017 | 15h10 to 16h10 | Talanoa Space in the Bonn Zone
The State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia on behalf of the network
Gender@international Bonn
Adaptation in motion
14 November 2017 | 10h00 to 12h00 | German Development Institute
Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik DIE, TransRe / University of Bonn,
Arizona State University ASU, UNU-EHS, University of Vienna, IOM
High-Level Segment
15 November 2017
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| All COP23 Side Events |
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Upcoming Events
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| Festival Hugo
20 - 24 November 2017 | Liège, Belgium
108th Session of the IOM Council
28 November - 1 December 2017 | Geneva, Switzerland
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| BRINGING STORIES OF MIGRATION TO THE WORLD Cinema and Migration. It’s a
magical bond that began over a century ago when filmmakers, many of whom were
immigrants themselves, began making movies about a world on the move. Their
films brought the dramatic, poignant and comic stories of migrants to diverse
audiences, through a language of images and emotions that were meaningful to
every culture.
The Global Migration Film Festival was launched by the UN Migration Agency
(IOM) in this spirit. The festival features new films that capture the promise
and challenges of migration for those who leave their homes in search of a
better life and the unique contributions migrants make to their new communities.
IOM’s first Global Migration Film Festival in 2016 took place in 89 countries.
Some 10,000 people attended 220 screenings at cinemas, universities, cultural
institutions and other venues. The festival hosted 13 feature films and
documentaries and nearly 200 short films about and by migrants, as well as
dozens of post-screening discussions and side-events.
This year’s festival will take place from 5 – 18 December 2017 in countries and
venues to be announced later this year. All screenings will be free of charge.
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