Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility presents recommendations for COP 21 in Paris

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IOM is working in collaboration with agencies within the framework of the Advisory Group on Human Mobility and Climate to support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process. The Advisory Group provides technical support to UNFCCC Parties to ensure that human mobility questions are taken into consideration within the negotiation process. This Position Paper outlines the Advisory Group’s recommendations to include human mobility matters in the UNFCCC Paris Agreement expected to be reached in December 2015.

At a side event on climate displacement and the Paris agreement which took place on 3 June in Bonn, the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility presented evidence on climate repercussions for the mobility choices of vulnerable communities and potential solutions. The UNFCCC side event was chaired by Koko Warner (UNU-EHS), a research consortium member of the MECLEP project, who introduced the Advisory Group and the entry points for the Paris agreement. Besides Jonah Auka of the Government of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, who shared his country’s need to link evidence to policy, speakers included the Norwegian Refugee Council's Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), The Nansen Inititative, IOM and UNHCR.

See here for the Advisory Group's publication: Human mobility in the context of climate change - Elements from the UNFCCC Paris Agreement