 Good morning, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all at this second session of the International Dialogue on Migration in 2022. While meeting in person is for now a possibility here in Geneva, we are taking advantage of the hybrid format to ensure this discussion has a broad reach. I welcome those who are joining us remotely, including many of our high-level speakers, and appreciate, in particular, those who are joining us at a very late or a very early hour at this moment. Excellencies, the International Dialogue on Migration is a critical platform to reflect upon and debate key migration issues, and particularly those most pressing for our work. Climate change and migration are defining issues for our time. There is now overwhelming evidence that climate change and disasters are shaping migration patterns in all parts of the world, in all parts of the world. In 2021, disasters alone led to 23.7 million, internal displacements according to the International Displacement Monitoring Center. Indeed, the IDMC are discussing precisely these numbers just next door here in the ICGC, supporting our policy discussions today. These estimates are expected to increase if no climate action is taken. Looking ahead, the World Bank has projected that 260 million people could become internal climate migrants by 2050, with no region safe from the impacts of climate change. While this data is new, the evidence is not. We have known for more than 30 years since the first Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in 1990 that climate change is what we can call a risk multiplier, capable of rapidly reshaping the patterns of human mobility. And precisely the latest IPCC6 assessment report that as you know was published earlier this year, as unequivocally concluded that it is today having profound impacts on human mobility. Our deteriorating environment alone should be cause for immediate action. But what has become very evident this year is the dominance of acute and multi-dimensional crises. Crises born from a reality where ongoing climate impacts have combined with the lingering effects of pandemic, economic instability, rising food prices, and the global reverberations of conflict in Europe. These factors have created unprecedented levels of food insecurity in much of the world. In such a context, it will be naive to think that people will not move. And indeed, in the progress declaration of the First International Migration Review Forum, adopted by the UN General Assembly in May by consensus, member states have expressed the same concern. According to the World Food Program, the global report on food crisis 2022 mid-year update, at least 205 million people, 205 million people are expected to face acute food insecurity and be in need of urgent assistance in 45 countries. South-Saharan Africa remains one of the most vulnerable regions to the impact of climate change and a region predicted to have the greatest number of internal climate migrants by 2050, 86 million. And countries of greatest concern include Somalia, where prolonged drought is combining with high food prices and continued conflict. Afghanistan, where famine looms following a combination of catastrophic floods and the worst drought for decades. And countries that have now been added to the list of countries of concern, Guatemala and Honduras, with too much rainfall and Malawi with too little. Increasing food insecurity presents itself not only as a mobility driver, a phenomenon, of course, that we have seen before, but also a manifestation of how climate change impacts productive ecosystems. The IPCC has noted that by 2050, up to 10% of current food production areas may become climatically unsuitable. Rural populations, landlocked or in poor dependent countries, fragile and conflict-affected contexts and humanitarian operations will suffer the blend of commodities scarcity and, of course, price increase. Your Excellencies, distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, we do not have much time left to act. We are already experiencing irreversible loss and damage and we are threatening the future of an entire young generation on their lives and their livelihoods. The overlapping crises we are witnessing around the world are undermining our ability to meet the promise of agenda 2030 and the sustainable development goals. Therefore, it is our responsibility to prepare for climate extremes. It is our responsibility to mitigate climate impacts on lives and livelihoods and consider the role that human mobility plays in this regard. Some regions of the world are already taken on this responsibility and IOM is supporting these efforts. In the East and on of Africa, a region deeply impacted by food insecurity and vulnerable to climate change, governments have come together to governize global support to address the harsh impact of climate change on human mobility through the Kampala Ministerial Declaration that was signed in July. And they have just returned from the Pan-African Forum on Migration in Kigali, Rwanda, where ministers from across the continent have gathered to assess how to build more resilient communities through adaptation strategies. The South American Conference on Migration has made a call for COP 27 to consider both the challenges and to promote good practices to avert, minimize and address displacement related to climate change. And the Pacific region is in the process of developing a regional framework on climate mobility to guide governments in addressing displacement, migration, evacuations and planned relocation. Our dialogue today is timely as we are a few weeks now from the next iteration of the conference of the parties, scheduled to take place next month in Sharm el-Chake in Egypt. And it is an opportunity to impact the various aspects of food insecurity, climate change and migration, understanding the scale of the problem as well as finding solutions. Over the next two days, we will look at the specific impacts of climate on our oceans, on water, a critical issue and on land. While the food insecurity challenges of today are compounded with economic recession and high food prices, the challenges of tomorrow will center upon our ability to produce food. We will assess the impacts for specific populations, women, who often bear the brunt of food insecurity. But women also hold the key to solutions at the community level. And the young people will be forced to take up the legacy we leave behind. We will identify means for communities to adapt to changing livelihood options through skills development and new green economic opportunities, including through partnerships with the private sector and the critical role to be played by diaspora communities. We will discuss the possibilities for legal pathways to expand routes out of humanitarian and development crises for those with the fewest choices. We will hear in this dialogue from migrants who have been affected by climate change, but have used their knowledge and experience both to inform our responses and help others. We will learn from the global COVID-19 experience, both in terms of its impacts on food insecurity, but our efforts to build a climate-smart food system. And we will look, of course, towards COP 27 to understand how can we bring these issues to the table to give visibility, raising awareness when in Egypt and in future rounds, the international parties come together. The climate crisis we are facing today is also a social crisis. Poverty, inequality, and marginalization are the major determinants of individual vulnerability to current and future hazards. As we experience more intense and also more frequent climate events, it will be our capacity to address the social, political, and economic factors that engender risk that will determine the success and resilience of communities, both these and the next generation. IOM's vision and commitment is to promote a comprehensive approach to migration, environment, and climate change. It is grounded human rights for the benefit of both migrants and societies. When well-managed, migration becomes a safe and accessible choice. It can help people adapt to environmental and climate change pressures. My hope is that at the end of this international dialogue, we will have identified practices, lessons learned, and recommendations that will support the development and implementation of concrete actions for the benefit of both states and migrants in this context. The outcomes of your discussions during these two days will feed into our contributions to the upcoming COP27, as well as to the next IOM council that we'll meet on the 29th of November, where we have invited member states to participate at the highest political level in a discussion on these same issues. Ladies and gentlemen, I look forward to fruitful deliberations. And I am convinced that only together can we overcome the overlapping crisis the world is facing today. Thank you.