Human Mobility at COP 21

Now is a historical opportunity, and I take this occasion to urge States and all other relevant actors [...] to include human mobility in the Climate Agreement to be negotiated in Paris. There is still time to do so.  Migration was anchored in the Climate Adaptation Framework in Cancun in 2010 --  after 10 long years of climate negotiations -- opening a whole new scope for action on climate and human mobility.  Let’s not reverse the process and ignore human mobility - a defining feature of our time, a mega-trend of this century.

Keynote Address by William Lacy Swing, Director General of IOM at the Nansen Initiative Global Consultation

Visit our dedicated webpage for more information on key messages and updates in the run up to the COP 21: https://environmentalmigration.iom.int/human-mobility-cop21