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Key Messages on Displacement, Migration, Planned Relocation, and Immobilities for COP 31

By The Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility and the Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group

13/10/26

Flooding in Sylhet, Bangladesh. People and communities are affected by human mobility—including displacement, migration, planned relocation and immobilities— across the world. COP 31 offers an important opportunity to increase action and support. Image credit: Muhammad Amdad Hossain via Pexels.

This document prepared by the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility and the Loss and Damage and the Challenges Of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group provides key messages on displacement, migration, planned relocation and immobilities for key agenda items and mandated events at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC): COP 31, CMA 8, SBI 65 and SBSTA 65. Key messages are provided for:

  • Mitigation
  • Just Transition
    • Operationalising the Just Transition Mechanism
    • Review of the United Arab Emirates Just Transition Work Programme
  • Adaptation
    • Global Goal on Adaptation
      • Tripling adaptation finance
      • Technical task force to undertake technical work on improving metadata and methodologies for the Belém Adaptation Indicators
      • Baku Adaptation Road Map
      • Terms of reference for the review of the United Arab Emirates Framework for Global Climate Resilience
    • Guidance relating to Adaptation communications
    • Matters Related to the Adaptation Fund
    • Review of the progress, effectiveness and performance of the Adaptation Committee
    • 19th Focal Point Forum of the Nairobi work programme
    • Baku High-Level Dialogue on Adaptation
  • Loss and Damage
    • Joint annual report of the Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM ExCom) and the Advisory Board of the Santiago Network (SNAB)
      • WIM ExCom
      • SNAB
      • Regular Report on Loss and Damage
    • Report of the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage and Guidance to the Fund
  • Climate Finance
  • Global Stocktake
  • Action for Climate Empowerment

The messages have been endorsed by over 90 organisations and individuals, including civil society organizations, United Nations agencies, academics and experts. In addition to the messages, the groups have provided an advocacy reference document which unpacks in greater detail the entry points on human mobility for each relevant agenda item, providing context and longer messages.

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