COP28 Side Event – Averting, Minimizing, and Addressing Displacement Related to Climate Change

November 28, 2023
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Averting, minimizing, and addressing displacement related to climate change
COP28 Side Event
2 December 2023, 2:00-3:30pm Dubai Time
UNOPS Pavilion, Blue Zone

Also live online here

All over the world, the consequences of climate change affect vulnerable people and communities and force them to leave their homes. With climate change effects rapidly growing, related loss and damage induced by rapid-onset weather events and slow-onset climatic processes are becoming an increasingly crucial challenge and concern for countries worldwide and identified as a political and operational priority for the countries most at risk.

Action and support on loss and damage will require broad, coherent efforts, including developing instruments and frameworks, establishing coordination mechanisms, strengthening institutional and technical capacities, and deploying significant financial and human resources. These efforts should include specific approaches to averting, minimizing, and addressing displacement, both as a form of loss and damage and to avoid indirect, cascading impacts individuals and societies face in a displacement context.

Join the conversation in person or online to learn more about displacement as loss and damage and discuss enhance action and support for measures aimed at averting, minimizing, and addressing displacement related to the adverse effects of climate change.

Speakers will include representatives of the Governments of Kenya, Fiji, Guatemala, Bangladesh, the UNFCCC Task Force on Displacement (TFD), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the PDD.

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Read the PDD Key Messages for COP28