Brief – Participation, Engagement and Representation of Migrants, Displaced Persons and Refugees in Loss and Damage Financing, Action and Support

September 17, 2024
Global, Publications

This brief compiles inputs from practitioners working on human mobility and climate change as a contribution to discussions and processes that aim to ensure engagement of migrants, refugees and other displaced persons in climate-vulnerable situations in processes and decisions around loss and damage financing, and action and support.

The need for this discussion stems from Decision CMA.5 on the operationalization of the new funding arrangements for responding to loss and damage, approved at COP28 in Dubai.

Its text calls for the engagement of these groups in the mechanisms that support the operationalisation of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage. The points elaborated in this brief can also help promote their meaningful participation in other UNFCCC processes, including, but not limited to, the work of the Advisory Board of the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage and the Executive Committee (ExCom) of the Warsaw international Mechanism for Loss and Damage and the ExCom’s expert groups, including the Task Force on Displacement.

This brief has been published by the Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group and the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility and led by Isatis Cintron-Rodriguez (Columbia Climate School and ACE Observatory), Alice Baillat (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre), Lorenzo Guadagno (Platform on Disaster Displacement) and Teo Ormond-Skeaping (The Loss and Damage Collaboration).