 I would like actually to welcome our next moderator to start the next panel and if we find the time we'll do the panel or after it, we'll show another video with the migrant story. Thank you. Thank you. So my name is Angelica Broman and I am the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus Advisor at IOM in Geneva. It's a great honor to be here with you and moderate the panel called Examining the Linkage Between Migration, Environment and Climate Change to the Humanitarian Development Peace Nexus. As you all know IOM adheres to the OECDAC recommendations on the HDPN which fits very well with our mandate. We work within all the three sectors. We are a triple mandated organization and it's a great pleasure to see and we always look on how we can integrate environmental climate change better into our operations. As mentioned we have a panel of seven distinguished person and I think I'll do, I want to introduce all the seven at once. I will start with the first speaker and let that person give a short presentation and then go on to the next due to shortage of time. So we know further a due and as mentioned you can put questions during the presentations in the chat and we will make sure that they are responded to. So the first panelist today is Mr. Jost Klarenbeck and I also want to apologize in advance if I mispronounce any person's name. Mr. Klarenbeck is a special envoy for migration from the Netherlands. And as ambassador at last he's worked with governments, international organization and civil society to foster dialogue with countries of origin and transition. He's currently chairing the EU Horn of Africa Migration Dialogue, the Khatum process and he's going to talk and give some perspectives from the Netherlands on this issue. So over to you. Thank you very much Angelica and well many speakers have already said it both yesterday and today but you know the COVID-19 pandemic has left some very deep impacts and inequalities so there is an increased political urgency to act as usual no longer possible and therefore this international dialogue on migration focusing on migration environment climate change is most timely and urgent and a big thank you to IMM for organizing this. The urgency to act now is reflected in the disturbing and growing figures on global force displacement. If you look at the year 2019 for instance almost 2000 weather related disasters triggered 25 million new displacements across 140 countries and territories. Now this is the highest figure recorded in a decade and most important of all these are three times the number of displacements caused by conflicts and violence three times. Climate change is happening as we speak and it is already affecting lives of people in multiple ways. In terms of food security, floods, droughts pushing more than 100 million people below the poverty line in the coming years and further driving migration as well and Africa is perhaps the continent most at risk here in the sense of driving forced migration as a result of climate change. The number of people on the move due to climate change related factors will increase strongly over the coming years. According to the African Union future climate change may cause armed conflict in over 20 African countries and political unrest in maybe 30 other countries. And of course we need to realize that over 75% of the African population is under the age of 35. Therefore it is important to listen very closely to what youth have to say. African youth may become climate leaders or they may become displaced and we have a choice to help you. To address this urgency to act the Netherlands organized and hosted the first global climate adaptation summit last January to share knowledge lessons learned and how to adapt to climate change. And we learned that an investment of well maybe two trillion dollars in climate adaptation could deliver over seven trillion dollars in benefit. Investing climate adaptation could add up to maybe 0.7 extra economic growth globally. So climate adaptation is the right thing to do and it is also the smart thing to do. We need to start putting this at the heart of social economic recovery from COVID-19. We in the Netherlands see climate as a fundamental risk to economic and financial stability and we see climate action as an opportunity to reinvigorate growth after the pandemic and create new green jobs. For us this is mission critical and ambition therefore we the word this year also on the road to COP26. Water, agriculture, economic growth are most affected by climate change but they're also hugely important pillars for building back. And from the global pandemic and lessons learned over the past year one quality shines through and which is the power of global collaboration and partnership. Climate partnerships at all levels are important. We need to link local national and global levels for adaptation, strengthen meaningful inclusion in climate decision-making processes and increase the involvement of a wide range of actors in putting adaptation solutions into practice and as I said do involve youth and do involve women. Unitarian development and peace building actors must work together to find durable and efficient solutions in the context of climate change, environmental disasters and this calls for an integrated approach, a new way of working and in this context we very much appreciate IOM's initiative and efforts to foster greater cooperation and to enhance cross-sectional partnerships that concretely address the increasingly complex interconnected migration challenges of today. Now the pandemic has shown us once more the importance of localization, the need to reduce vulnerability societies, protecting them against shocks and we need to leverage our collective knowledge, learn from ongoing initiatives, share lessons learned, do joint analysis on risks and how to promote durable solutions. And thus also tackling root causes of irregular and forced migration. As our Prime Minister said last year when the year of the pandemic restarted, you know let this not be the year that triggered a lost decade for development and for building a climate resilient world. Emergency response and recovery packages must be aligned with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and this means we must incorporate incentives to accelerate transformation towards economic recovery powered by low carbon infrastructure, green jobs and resilient livelihoods. As the cliche goes building back better is the only way forward. So in summary three points, one climate can be a risk is a risk to economic and financial stability and security but climate adaptation and mitigation is also an opportunity for reinvigorating growth after the pandemic. Second point we do need global cooperation and partnerships at all levels, link local, national and global, strengthen meaningful inclusion especially for women and youth in climate decision making processes. And third we need to leverage this collective knowledge, learn from ongoing initiatives, share lessons learned, do joint analysis and promote durable solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic has further increased urgency to act and while doing this we also help tackle the root causes of irregular and forced migration and displacement. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. That was very comprehensive and I think you covered a lot of what the HDPN is about localization, putting people first, participatory approach etc. But we're now going to hand over to Ms. Grata Enda Vadingintayas. I am very sorry for the pronunciation. Ambassador, permanent mission of Indonesia to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva. Her Excellency will highlight Indonesia's national experience and best practice for regarding climate induced mobility and disastrous reduction especially from the perspective of the global compact for migration where they're a champion country. Are you online? I can't see you please. Yes I am online. Oh wonderful, great. Over to you then. Thank you Angelica for giving me the time. Now before I touch upon the specific question addressed to me I would like to start with some statistics to give you a context regarding Indonesia where we are coming from. First in the Asia Pacific region alone the number of international migrants according to the UNS cap reached 65 million in 2019. Now 65 million equal a quarter of the world international migrants that reached almost 300 in 2019 and 65 million is almost equal to the total population of France in 2020. Just to give you the perspective but more importantly this number is only represent one side of the story the regular documented migrant. We haven't even talking about the irregular one. We do not have sufficient data to portray the irregular one which I believe could be much more significant in number. The other thing is UNSCR noted that eight out of the most 10 countries that hear hardest by conflict are among those also exposed to climate hazard and these eight countries among 10 host nearly 20 million displaced persons fleeing from violence conflict and persecution. Now statistics and events also show that people are motivated to migrate for a number of reasons that many of the panel has already said includes economic, political, environmental and climate industries and all this motivation may also be compounded and interrelated. So migration is an undeniable reality but let me just bring another understanding that the fact migration is part of human existence. It has been happening in the earliest recorded history of mankind. Many human civilization, economic growth in the past were created or driven by migration and even all the post factors that most colleague panel has already mentioned including the environmental and climate industries. It's also caused the migration many centuries ago however of course the current geopolitical situation now we are start marking up lines territory between country makes the situation much, much complex. Then of course for Indonesia we also understand that it is important that migration policy focus on tackling the root causes some of them like people consider a more preventable causes but it is also a long term solution. So for country like Indonesia it is more possible and realistic for us to combine preventive measure with improvement of our current migration management. This is to ensure that when migration happen then it will happen it's happening it will conduct it in a safe orderly and regular manner so a comprehensive approach. Now back to the question at hand over the decades Indonesia have learned so much from our various experience in responding to domestic climate and natural disaster induced displacement and irregular movement of people. We are country of 17,000 island so can you imagine that and at least there are three lessons learned that we can share in the connection of nations between humanitarian development and peace and migration. First is the need to build a domestic capabilities. Now we learn firsthand the importance of having holistic approach on disaster reduction as a country located in the ring of fire Indonesia disaster prone. In 2020 alone we already have more than 1,300 disaster occurrence and have already more than 5.1 million people displaced. Now again this backdrop our government for several years now has saved the focus from disaster response mechanism to disaster risk management and supported by a more comprehensive policy framework. Of course we're taking into account the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction and we also continue to build a better and fit for purpose disaster management institution at the national and sub-national. We have a Indonesian national board for disaster management at the central governments but it also has affiliate office at the provincial and district level. So at the national level we will focus on improving institutional and policies coordination with other agencies at the national level but also in terms of allocation resources. Just remember we are talking about 17,000 islands of country with 70,000 island of islands so allocation of resources is important how we are making sure that the resources that we have are able to move quickly to address disaster on the other part of our country. At the local we focus on enhancing disaster response by focusing on the efficiency and efficacy in aid management and aid delivery system. Now we want I think one of the lessons from a many disaster that we have and how we are you know managing help and assistance from other countries want to make sure that all program and disaster relief assistance that we receive prioritizes the local community interest and not done or driven. Sometimes we have received assistance that are not actually practical to be used at the local level for example so it's another way of resources and second regional approach is often a more tailor-made solution for us. Now data shows that most migration happen between countries of the same region so hence regional approach fits better because neighbors know best. Now allow me to share our experience in establishing the Bali process with Australia in 2002 to address the issue of irregular migration in the region. Now Bali process have more than 49 countries it was in the beginning a consultative process bring countries of origin transit as well as destination. Now most of our members are countries coming from the region but also we have members coming from different region but these members are important key player in the migration issue. We also include different UN agency and international organization. So in the beginning the forum is another platform for information sharing and best practices but then under one C crisis happening in 2015 and after that we experienced in the region subsequent cases of irregular maritime migration and this crisis is another example how Bali process as a regional forum has to adapt its working method. Now the crisis in 2015 shows that Bali process need to build a more agile and timely response for sudden and large influx of migration. So we are no longer a forum for talk shop and sharing best experience we have to establish something to respond quickly. So Bali process establish what we call the task force on planning and preparedness it comprise of operational level government official who are responsible at the national level dealing with transported large movement of migrants and refugee. So through the task force Bali process try to create another arm to have a stronger action oriented and in field coordination where communication has to be built among countries in the region from early warning especially detection of movement of ship carrying people on both you know both peoples and coordination for search and rescue that sometimes need different country who share maritime border to work together and we talk about capacity and how to help each other in terms of in this environment and management of shelter for these people that we rescue and starting last year because of the pandemic we also build capacity is in responding this crisis while still adhering to the strict health protocol we need to protect not only our worker and official at the front line that provide help to the rescue migrant but we need to make sure the rescue migrant are safe from the cockpit now between 2020-2021 we have rescued more than almost 40 400 Rohingya board people majority are women and children and for Indonesia it's it's actually a commitment from us to provide assistance and protection although we are not a party to the 1950 refugee convention the other thing is Bali process has also taught us that first regional management of migrant means we also need to work in dealing with the element of transnational crimes like human trafficking and people sparkling because these crimes praise on the vulnerability of migrant that is desperate to escape their situation in their home countries the more the other important thing is it's important to work with other resourceful countries particularly the state party to the 1915 convention not only resources country have more role in contribution for the funding but also in accelerating the safe voluntary and dignified and of course resettlement of migrants in our region to outside of Asia Pacific region now the third one is multilateral governance such as GCM we find GCM it's really helpful he has been served as guide for Indonesia to improve our migration governance for example but the most important thing is for us to identify some of the gaps and missing lead related to the cross-sectoral challenge of migration in short GCM has helped us to build a more coordinated migration governance and also helped us in the process of definitely national action plan the moment we are doing the national experiment to further implement GCM with the principle of whole government and whole society approach now according to the GCM there is also a notion that we need to minimize the driver that force people to leave their countries yes we have already agreed on that but also we need to work towards a world where migration is is a more a genuine choice not a necessity and if it's become a genuine choice then according to GCM it is also our job to ensure the choice is conducted in safe and orderly a manner on on the last note you'd like to touch upon the impact of pandemic on migration during the pandemic we've seen that many countries including myself our countries started to looking inward and most are struggling to caution the impact of COVID-19 to the social economic welfare of their people and we want to make sure that our people get vaccinated as soon as possible so it is a difficult time for any country to provide health support and protection for their own citizens we're not even mentioning health support and protection to the irregular migraine that we are hosting so can you imagine even those this is even a problem for a high income country can you imagine the challenge for low and middle income countries with the minimum resources but at the same time the reality they are the one who do the heaviest listening lifting in immigration because they host the majority of irregular migrant in the world so therefore just to underline the importance of principle of burden sharing and responsibility sharing is not just a rhetoric but also observe and implement it particularly during difficult time such as the such as the time of the pandemic i think that's it for me and thank you again for your times and listening so i'm looking forward to hear the views and perspective from other panelists and of course the question thank you Angelica thank you very much that's exactly what i mean you said it all really the sunday framework the heart of hdpn is coordinating coordinating and enhancing domestic and local capacity we will probably hear from all of you back at the end of this session because we will open up for questions and answers but now with no further ado it's a great honor for me to present miss Cecilia Jimenez da Mary the UN special repertor on the human rights of internally displaced person who will talk about IDPs human rights and slow onset dimension is that with no further ado and after miss Jimenez we will have general ansiet if that's okay with you i see your honor also go ahead miss Cecilia thank you very much and actually good evening to where i'm coming from with very many thanks for the kind invitation of iam to contribute to the this first dialogue on migration and specifically to this panel so let me add to the spectrum the wide spectrum of migration by raising an important and urgent issue that is forced displacement in the context of climate change which has already been attributed by other speakers human mobility in the context of climate change and specifically on slow onset adverse effects of climate change can take many forms including displacement migration and planned relocation in most cases movement is not entirely voluntary or forced i think in the previous panel one of the speakers pointed out that sometimes there is a very very thin line between forced migration forced displacement and migration but rather sometimes it even falls somewhere in the continuum between the two with different degrees of voluntariness and constraint however in line with the definition of the guiding principles and internal displacement internal displacement is considered to take place when people are evacuated or flee their homes or place of of habitual residence whether to avoid the anticipated effects of a disaster or to remain or or in the aftermath of a disaster and remain between the country's borders and so it is within this context that i have been asked to share with you my last report to the general assembly which focus on the particular challenges posed by internal displacement in the context of slow onset adverse effects of climate change as well as its impacts on the enjoyment of human rights of those affected as defined by the UN FCC slow onset events are events that evolve gradually from incremental changes occurring over many years or from an increased frequency or intensity of recurring events and that sounds so familiar to all of us it is very telling that while just some attention has been brought to the human rights challenges resort resulting from certain types of slow onset disaster displacement most of the attention has been focused on sudden onset disaster displacement the human rights implications are both ongoing in all types of disaster displacement current going on now as well as generational with much of the effects in the future and in our children and our children's children quite irreversible so given this context we have analyzed in my reports that practically all the human rights of the displaced as well as non-displaced persons are actually affected in the risk of violations to these human rights increase but in with both time intensity as well as frequency of the effects of climate change and nevertheless between displaced and non-displaced populations the differences of the levels of risks and actual violations of human rights actually grow wider engraver over time displaced populations having the most have the most burden of these risks to human rights violations in addition within the vast populations of internally displaced persons affected we likewise need to ensure to examine and address the particularities of the impacts of climate change on the human rights of specific groups such as indigenous peoples pastoralists women children and young persons the elderly and persons with disabilities as well just to name a few it is particularly in relation not only to IDPs generally but to specific groups that the aspect of loss and damages comes in very succinctly for example much of the loss in IDP situations are not actually considered classically loss and damage talk about for example the loss of culture and language caused by the displacement in indigenous peoples the loss of traditional livelihoods brought about by damages to land and waters as experienced by persons with special attachment to the lands and also to the loss and damages of ways of life and the knowledge that this in vibe in vibes this year the anniversary of the f of the UN FCC it would be incumbent on us to reflect on the so-called unseen non-material loss and damages that are the result of the adverse effects of climate change brought about by forces placement having said this however the only way forward is to ensure that such groups instead of merely being seen as vulnerable which is the prevalent view in many of our circles they should be seen as agents of positive change and agency it is therefore therefore incumbent on us to facilitate in our respective areas of responsibility in this wide spectrum of migration that the setting up the establishment of conditions that would enable what I call the agency approach indeed in this vein my mandate has always always emphasized that the participation of internally displaced persons and other affected people like migrants in decisions affecting them is very essential and is actually a matter of good governance on the part of the authorities and this is an essential approach to protect the rights of internally displaced persons my report concludes by reiterating in fact the primary responsibility of states to prevent and reduce the risks attributed to such effects of climate change and we have heard many examples ready in this in this panel which is very heartening to me but with the fundamental need I would like to insist there is a fundamental need to adopt a human rights and IDP displaced affected person centered approach and response to prevention protection and solutions parallel to the spotlight of state publications which is an attribute of the primary responsibility of states an attribute of sovereignty I stress the importance of course of a consolidated and coordinated solidarity approach an action oriented approach of the international community to tackle this present situation in some addressing internal displacement as in the in the wide spectrum of migration within the context of slow onset adverse effects of climate change requires a holistic approach to the complexities and multi causality of human mobility in this context it therefore requires both individual and joint action by affected states multilateralism and the international community with the IDPs and affected communities themselves and of course a multi stakeholder coordinated approach to climate action disaster risk reduction development peace human rights protection it would also be essential to involve peace actors in this in settings where such climate change related effects interact with armed conflict this is the reality we have in many countries and on the ground the approach requires other actors other actors as well for example business civil society national human rights institutions and other act independent actors as well as the academia last but certainly not the least the participation of internally displaced persons migrants etc as required by the human right of political participation and reiterated by many international instruments including the guiding principles on internal displacement in addition to my mandates exporting dependent report to the journal assembly which I have just shared with you and my recommendations I hope that the recommendations are taken on board and I know that some states have taken them on board but also to be taken on board by the international community I also very much hope that the high level panel of the secretary general for solutions to internal displacement which includes disaster displacement will take a consolidated approach to disaster risk reduction development and human rights protection without which solutions to situations of displacement caused by the effects of climate change cannot be achieved I would like to conclude by thanking IOM for its valuable contribution to my GA report last year which I have shared with you just now and IOM's inputs have much enhanced the perspectives and substance of the analysis of my report and I would also like to provide give appreciation for our collaboration on climate change and internal displacement issues last but not the least thank you to IOM for the invitation for me to join this panel and I look forward to the discussions over to you thank you very much to you I feel honored to have you on board and we should thank you much more than you thanking us I think everything you touched upon the coordinated approach ensuring human rights and having participation is something we've described for for years and we always want to remember the value of culture and indigenous rights I think everything you said is very clear and very relevant but I am marching on very quickly here because we have a tight panel and the next speaker is general Ancien Nibaruto director general of Burundi civil protection and chief executive national platform for risk prevention and disaster management this is an intersectoral technical committee that coordinates emergency preparedness and response action in Burundi he will bring important perspectives of how the Burundi government's long-term approach to reduce the number of people displaced due to the effects of natural disaster and climate just has gone so over to you welcome general Thank you madam the president of this session I am the general director of civil protection in Burundi and also president of the national platform for risk prevention and disaster management in Burundi I'd like to thank the organizers for this opportunity to actually allow Burundi to present their efforts and their work on the ground to really respond to the challenges we're now facing linked to displaced people after climate disasters it's very important I think to reiterate these actions in the context of the rolling out of long-term programs it's important to actually look at climate change as a key factor influencing our work and many of the speakers so far have really underlined the links at play and the fact that there must really be an increased attention placed on this now within our international community and within our countries we need to really coordinate our efforts to make sure that we are really able to respond to the current challenges and to respond to the needs of those affected to reduce the number of individuals being displaced the government of Burundi has really been looking at reducing risks as a national priority we have therefore set up a platform as I said the national prevention for risk prevention and disaster management to really coordinate all our preparatory and resilience building actions we want to create a real exchange dynamic within different sectors in different areas so that we can really make sure our actions are coordinated and to make sure we can really prepare ourselves to have the best response possible I feel that NGOs in Burundi have also been very important in terms of contributing to these efforts we've been able to actually integrate their ideas and their initiatives as part of this platform there are lots of things going on on a community level and a provincial level in terms of coordinated plans for community development that are taking into account these factors now we have individuals working in each area now who are responsible to for actually rolling out our plans and it's important I think to reiterate the fact that we are very committed to disaster management now and to really ensuring that we can integrate the various humanitarian players involved and the different service providers that are also being called upon in the context of these these structures so we really need to make sure that we do create an optimized structure for our work to make sure our resources can be drawn upon in the best possible way and to ensure that we can actually have a national strategy for disaster reduction and disaster management we are trying to align this with the Sindhi framework and the 2018 and 20 sorry 2018 and 20 22 plans we have an organizational plan for civil society organizations we're trying to really set up response bodies now in various areas of the country and we have an operational center and a public health center set up now that is really managing our response particularly in the context of COVID-19 there's a lot of work therefore going on within this center and we're now thought of as a model center on a regional level we've been chosen as one of the East Africa member countries as as as the specific country to host this center and so this is very significant for us when it comes to actually managing situations of crisis it's also important I think to look at contingency planning we have now on a national level a contingency plan to look at preparing anticipatory responses to possible future needs our prayer minister has really placed the emphasis on the importance of this kind of plan and we're really trying to align our efforts now to look at the major risks that we're facing now and that we may face in the future we are coordinating a group working specifically on epidemics we know specifically with COVID-19 at the moment but also linked to Ebola we're looking at how we can actually prepare therefore for possible future pandemic context we feel that this is very important in terms of preventive work we've been creating links with the DRC in this for work on this subject as well floods is another area that we're really focusing on we have tracked this as a specific factor linked to displacement we have floods in identified areas within our plains areas that plains part of the country and we really need to make sure that we have a national plan and that we're working on this specific threat within the various areas involved we're also working on our communications effort specifically with regard to crisis management it's important to inform you all I think that since 2015 Burundi has been really facing many extreme climate events that have been directly linked to increases in rainfall and have created a lot of displacements internal displacements within our country it's important therefore to really work within our country to face up to these climatic events and to work out how we can actually measure them in the future to try to work on prevention between 2018 and 2019 more than 200,000 people were tracked as displaced individuals within our country so we have a displacement tracking device now and the IOM actually helped us roll this out we're really able to use this now to try to quantify the number of people affected so this was introduced in 2015 and we now have quite a lot of statistics that we've been able to collect with regards to people on the move within our country linked specifically to these climatic events so we can then draw the specific connections between social and political issues at play as well. Madame Chair I would also like to just underline the some of the aspects linked to capacity building that we have been working on on a governmental level these capacity building efforts have specifically targeted some of our institutions and structures that are at risk of disasters and also linked to tracking population movements we've tried to really establish links with a mapping of risks and with an identification process that has actually enabled us to to target and to track specific areas that are at high risk the idea is to really try to prepare therefore for planned risk and to try to roll out this kind of program throughout our national territory we're looking at this mapping process as a starting point for further work in terms of rolling out various significant tools the displacements we see at the moment are indeed linked to climate change I think the figure is around 80 percent so it's really a crucial link to emphasize within our country at the moment we really are facing the effects of climate change and climate disasters within this capacity building context we have developed training actions as well we're rolling out in large training plans now for individuals involved in preventive activities and also those involved in actually setting up structures to respond to urgent needs we're trying to promote food self-sufficiency as well working with associations and charitable organizations in order to really determine some priorities linked for example to our maize production we've really seen some adverse effects of climate change on farmers producing maize in particular and we have now an association that we're working with specifically to target these communities that have been very seriously affected in terms of their own food sufficiency we've also rolled out a tool to adapt our planning programs to important climate effects within the sustainable development agenda we have a 2018-2027 plan to try to reduce disaster risks and really place the emphasis on adaptation to climate change we're developing a early warning system and we really need to try to emphasize and carry on with these activities through our national team that we've set up and through sharing data the idea is to really be able to better manage the way in which we prepare for and also react to disasters disaster management is now being rolled out and looked at as a transverse or cross cutting issue we're trying to involve therefore different governmental departments at various levels and also those working on the ground we have a national committee therefore tasked specifically with looking at initiatives linked to reproductive health and linked to health services for for migrants we're looking at education as well as a specific priority at the University of Burundi we now have a master's level program linked to disaster management and disaster risk prevention we've tried therefore to really integrate training courses on disaster mitigation within some of our top teaching institutions we're placing the emphasis on the importance of communication when it comes to risk prevention with our national network of communication and information on disaster risk we're looking also at research and development is of course a key area and we are able now to draw on some cutting-edge technology to help us with these efforts we're promoting sectoral groups as well so to try to actually link and bring together work on different areas we have ministerial departments in charge of actually monitoring these with links to specific UN agencies involved we also want to really try to bring in the private sector to support us in our work as well as the civil society we have many challenges when it comes to actually establishing better public private partnerships we have work to do but we're going to really try to place the emphasis on this and continue to work in this way to conclude now I'd like to also just introduce another program that we are rolling out in terms of investments in disaster prevention last year the government of Burundi created our own national fund for disaster risk prevention and we are using this fund now through our partnerships with various organizations partnerships have been very important for us in terms of the projects that we actually have on the ground at the moment to work on a community level on disaster prevention also in terms of some of our institutional work on capacity building with Oxfam with Care International with Hijen and other organizations I think this was everything I wanted to share I know I said quite a lot I tried to cover everything but I think I'd better leave the floor now to some of the other panelists I'd be happy to answer your questions of course though thank you thank you very comprehensive approach and I appreciate everything you do you have the local university involved you are integrating in schools you're working with ION's DTM to get the fact I am highly impressed I know very little about Burundi but it is extremely interesting to hear all the work you're doing and I wish we had more time for every panelist to expand but with no further ado I have I have three more panelists and then we open up for questions so from Colombia we should have Madame Faray Calie Gonzalez who is Director of Economy at the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs she was previous Council of International Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Colombia to the United Nations so por favor si la señora está if you are here please thank you thank you Madame Director and buenos días buenas tardes buenas noches para todos well good morning good afternoon and good evening to everyone my regards to the distinguished panelists joining us today and thank you to the IOM for inviting us to present our views on the relationship between migration environment and climate change and its relation with humanitarian and peace efforts so first of all I think that we should have better balance between mitigation and adaptation to climate change there are those countries who are more responsible for the climate change that are doing less to adapt and that's why when we talk about climate adaptation we are talking of resilience especially in those vulnerable countries to climate change such as Colombia the protection of biodiversity and environmental degradation as well as the effects of climate change affect countries in different ways and populations in different ways as well what we are doing at a national level in our initiative that started in 2020 started developing adaptation plans designed for the entirety of our national territory developing solutions that are proposed by the communities themselves when we talk about mitigating climate change we are talking about capacity building initiatives related to economy as well as the creation of structures that are resilient to climate change including technology and food systems that are adequate to these initiatives we hope that we will be able to come to fruitful and hopeful partnerships in this regard during COP26 into our society well thank you very much Leah has done a lot of interesting work as well I've been asked now by the interpreters if we can speak a bit slower in to ensure that they can follow the discussion it's there's a lot of things we want to get out and there's a lot of people on the q&a that want to open so I will just launch in we have two more speakers so first it's Mr Andrew Harper special advisor on climate action from UNHCR who will talk about UNHCR's perspective on htpn and how they work with their strategic framework for climate action so Mr Harper if you're online over to you okay no thank you very much Angelica and thank you and then remember to speak rather slowly sorry okay no thanks Angelica and thanks IOM and thank you to all the participants the I don't think I need to stress the challenges that the world is facing in relation to climate change and the the evidence that exists in order to help us have a much more informed position on steps that we need that we all need to take in order to provide the necessary dignity and in order to empower those people who are very much on the front lines of the climate emergency however I don't think it's sufficient for any of us just to look at the current situation and and I would say that we're still not investing sufficiently in supporting adaptation and prevention there's still a lot of talk about it but as our friends whether they be in the Philippines or Indonesia or Brundi or Colombia can attest it's that it's the people on the ground that we need to give them an option we need to give them an option that they don't have to move in order to find a future we have been working very closely with IOM and and I'd like to particularly pay credit to Deena and her crew on the climate on the climate team there who have been very inclusive particularly in relation to how UNHCR and IOM have been working to address that very closely between people being forced to move and people choosing to move and one of the key elements that we're increasingly seeing across the world is that trying to identify and to attribute the reason why people are moving is becoming increasingly fraught and this is why it is important that agencies such as IOM and UNHCR and others continue to work very closely together and for those governments who are also on this session today whether they be donors or hosting states I think some of the examples of where UNHCR and IOM working together can provide best practice because it's not only due to migration or to conflict that people are moving we also need to also take into account some of the other mega trends and whether that be urbanization whether it be changes in livelihood whether it be looking at massive population growth in certain countries including in in Africa we're not going to be able to change the dynamics people are going to move the increase in global temperatures are going to continue to increase and so we're going to have to adapt what UNHCR is particularly trying to do and working again with world leaders world leaders in particularly in trying to anticipate the future and looking at the impact of climate is to see how we can identify where vulnerable groups exist at the moment but where groups will be forced to move in the future because where those vulnerabilities are enhanced where those underlying grievances are not addressed then conflict will potentially break out and so we're trying to move from very much a reactive approach to a proactive approach and looking to work with key stakeholders governments both the hosting governments as well as development actors to see whether we can limit and mitigate conflict before it starts and again this is something which is much bigger than just one agency or one system but we know what's going to be happening and so we need to be better prepared so I would just like to again keep this relatively short because I know with there's been a lot going on already but to applaud IOM on its collaborative approach and the need for us to be focusing more on people where they are at the moment before they're forced to move and I would also recognize the work of the special repertoire and IDPs by saying that people are displaced internally before they cross the border and it's up to us to determine whether we can provide the necessary assistance and protection where people are before they are forced to move further afield so what the future holds is largely up to us to determine over thank you thank you very much mr harper I truly believe that it's only as a one UN we can actually work together so I appreciate your intervention especially much here the last speaker and not the least is Mr Ignacio Packer the executive director from the international council of voluntary agencies he's going to highlight different issues around climate change and the humanitarian action I think if you're online with no further ado I will hand over to you and then we will open up for questions and answers thank you very much mrs Angelica Roman and I'm really happy to be back on the IDM and really pleased to be able to speak on this panel after six really very interesting contributions from Burundi from Indonesia from Colombia well documented the special employee for migration from the Netherlands Cecily of course the special rapporteur on human rights for internally displaced persons and then now following Andrew from UNHCR I would cut short on some of the elements I was going to say and focus very much on and very very focused on the nexus perspective if nothing can bring me into a number of of other directions first I would like to to say that Igva being the diverse global network of humanitarian NGOs so the operational footprint of the members is approximately 20 billion dollars but it's the diversity which is also a strong added value including for the discussions around policy at national regional and global level we just had our 18th general assembly last week and we have stepped up the commitments and ambitions to meet the humanitarian protection challenges already being amplified by the climate and environmental emergency and also to mitigate and prepare for those to come so we have an Igva 2030 strategy adopted last week by the General Assembly which presents transformations of which addressing the impact of climate change on humanitarian action is one of them so the perspective of transformations in of course the way we operate and the Igva General Assembly also adopted commitments and the motion to action on environment climate and humanitarian action which includes the Igva network signing on the climate and environment charter for humanitarian organizations now just before joining the IDM I moderated the closing panel of Igva's annual conference which this year was on climate environment and humanitarian action so what I would share with you here also comes from some of the discussions that we have had around in the the annual conference on the collaboration or the collaborative action among member states donors multilateral organizations and the need to work across humanitarian development peace climate nexus and the five points that I will be looking at are on collective action on the focus on challenging environments on locally led adaptation on investments and then one on prevention that I'll make shorter but I would insist insist on it and I hope for the interpreters that have a really long day and a difficult task that the that I'm speaking slow enough but at the same time knowing that I have to go fast so on the collective action we need to work together to strengthen our response from developing our knowledge and practice to influencing others so they contribute to strengthen climate action in fragile and conflict affected places we must address the humanitarian development and climate silos and human needs and aspirations are not categorized in these silos people must be at the center of everything everything we do and we must focus on meeting the needs rights and aspirations of people systems must be adapted to them and not the other way around the second point is the focus on challenging environments there has been work to date to bring together humanitarian and development actors to agree on collective outcomes and we need now to agree on collective outcomes on climate resilience as a core part of the nexus approaches and that has started in the sale for instance sale regions severely impacted by land degradation water scarcity and climate change where we see coordinated support for disaster preparedness and resilience across development and humanitarian funding in an ideal world the combined efforts of humanitarian development and peace actors in any given location which results in a comprehensive response that meets the immediate and long-term needs of individuals communities and societies in practice in practice the limited tolerance for risk of development actors often prevents them from fully engaging in areas most affected by armed conflicts and climate risks and environmental degradation can further fuel intercom in your attentions and violence and shape dynamics and shape dynamics of violence the gap between the ideal world and what is in practice has led humanitarian organizations to engage in long-term programming to strengthen resilience notably through livelihood support and water and sanitation activities and there are limits to the abilities of humanitarians to compensate for the comprehensive development that provides solid avenue for climate adaptation there are places where humanitarians work where instability and fragility do not allow inclusive development efforts activities necessary to facilitate people's adaptation often beyond the scope of the capacities of humanitarian actors we need to find ways collectively to ensure that gradual steps are taken to help reduce people's vulnerability even in highly challenging environments otherwise people will be left with no option but to move the impacts of climate change are disproportionately experienced by people in vulnerable situations that has been mentioned before and just want to insist of how it is important to have the great to look at those with the greatest need of protection the internally displaced people the refugees the migrants in vulnerable situations stateless less persons including women children older persons people with disabilities LGBTQI plus people indigenous peoples the third point on locally led adaptation we must address the past failures of inadequate humanitarian development investment in the communities principal partnerships among the local and international actors has to be in the forefront the leadership knowledge and capacities of the communities local organizations and local authorities are to be generally respected and further empowered more resources have to be directed to the communities at the local level and community systems and community infrastructure whereby people can truly own the initiatives this includes lifesaving anticipatory action before a shock based on forecasts and risk analysis we know this reduces the impacts of a disaster and reduces the humanitarian needs early May a communique issued by the G7 said it welcomes the principles for locally led adaptation in reference to principles for locally led adaptation developed to help ensure that local communities are empowered to lead sustainable and effective adaptation to climate change at the local level the United Kingdom and Irish governments among some of the governments leading global institutions and local and international NGOs have already endorsed these principles and are advocating their endorsement by others this is encouraging but of course what counts is actions rapidly on investments strengthening responses requires addressing critical gaps in climate finance for now despite the clear vulnerability of conflict affected communities they are neglected by climate finance the international institute for environment and development research indicates that less than 10 percent of global climate finance is dedicated to local action it's even rarer for investment reaching the local level to be locally led stronger investment in climate adaptation through longer term more systematic support to local actors to help strengthen resilience in fragile and conflict affected countries and making it very short for prevention we of course call for rebalancing our efforts to focus more on measures that can be taken to limit people's exposure and strengthening their resilience to risks while continue to respond to emergency needs this includes promoting the rules of IHL protecting the natural environment without which human life is impossible these are key elements that have just come out from different organizations different speakers from our discussions at our annual conference and with this I wish to thank IOM for the cooperation with civil society organizations on a broad range of migration issues at global regional national and local levels to Dina and the climate team I express my appreciation for IOM's engagement for to sustain for sustained and mutually beneficial interaction with IGVA and its members that builds on synergies in policy and operational areas of migration for the benefits of all thank you thank you very much we do appreciate and I think all of the panelists have touched upon the importance of putting people at the center and work coordinated as the HDP and NEXUS approach actually advocates we have now reached the end of the panel and we have a lot of people who want to intervene but we're going to start with a person from Venezuela followed by Canada so Mr Antonio Morillo general director for multilateral affairs if you're online please take the floor now now I have the Canadian speaker whose name I lost here sorry I'm on the screen Angelica Tim Kilberg it is yes that's it you got it thanks so much no problem Angelica thanks well you know just delighted to be here and I wanted to thank you for this this amazing conference I've been following over the last couple days as you know Canada is an active member of the IOM so we're really really delighted that you've been at the forefront of the global response to climate induced displacement and climate migration we also value the efforts of other international partners the United Nations Refugee Agency and the platform for disaster displacement and looking at these topics and you know with such concern and such integrity you know Canada is a strong supporter of the global compact for migration we're a champion country so we really appreciate the efforts of the UN network on migration to ensure that climate migration will be an area of focus at the at the forum next year the international migration review forum so thank you to all of you for your hard work I won't talk about Canada too much we would you know we don't have much time we're already running over time so I'll stop there but just a big thank you to everyone who's working so hard on this project and I've really enjoyed all the interventions today thank you so much thank you very much and we appreciate the support that Canada has always given us and I'm going to hand over to Dershan now because he has read it who is on the list to speak are you there Dershan yes I'm here basically we have three more attended actually ask for the floor we have Madagascar followed by Philippines followed by Russian Federation first I think we need to give the floor to present it with Madagascar Lanto Rakhajera if I pronounce properly the family name please go ahead thank you very much for your excellent presentations today in Madagascar we have already seen many complex migratory flows that have been directly linked to environmental issues we have been able to map some of the effects on populations on the move and particularly in the northwest of our country we have really been able to link these to the rise in sea level droughts desertification and salinization as well as deforestation and soil erosion we have also felt the effect of cyclones and adverse weather events it's important therefore to underline the effect of climate change on migratory movements we really are noting already significant effects on our local environments and ecosystems in Madagascar the population is moving from the south because they are having to change their ways of life linked to their access to fertile lands these displacements contribute to economic difficulties that we're facing and we have to look at this in terms of a workforce issue as well we have a lot of economic activities that have a negative effect on our environment particularly within our forest regions we have important documentation now to really underline the significant level of internal migration as a key challenge for sustainable systems and also cohesion and peace within our country we are cooperating with our neighboring countries to try to really respond to cohabitation difficulties and interactions between different cultural groups we are therefore trying to establish links with host communities and really support regions that are feeling the effects of migratory flows and we are of course also very affected by COVID-19 at the moment we have rolled out various plans within our country in order to try to curb these effects and we are seeing effects linked to our migratory mapping we've seen a massive movement of people from the south after a situation of drought and then an increased pressure within the north of our country it's important therefore to really track migratory routes support migrants along their whole trajectory and really look at the social level of what we can do when it comes to access to health and access to education when it comes to migratory issues and development within our country we have an internal migratory observatory now and this is supported by the IOM we've seen a lot of international support for this development work and we really do welcome this we are continuing to work on our research centres and our platform that has now been set up to really strengthen our capacity to analyse internal migration phenomena we therefore are seeing a lot of individuals involved in training efforts trying to roll out national and regional policies we no longer have a general migration coordination in terms of training but we're trying very much to roll this out at the moment thank you I would like to thank you for this inspiring actually speech and I would like now to give the floor to representative of the climate commission of the Philippines Mr Alexis Lapis firstly I'd like to bid everyone good evening and I'd like also to take the panelists for sharing insightful ideas on the topics and of course this event is very timely and considering the urgent international discourse dissecting the interrelational and nexus between three interrelational issues that is climate change, environmental degradation and their impacts on migration as such in the Philippines we believe that we should focus on the use of applicable management framework that places the elements in the right places not forcing them to come together in a contrived nexus approach in this case we are dealing with defined elements that fall into the following categories drivers that generate the risk the impact generators and the impact recipients to trace the risk resources all the way to manifested impacts this risk management workforce is of utmost importance because it does not only generate predictability in terms of the interactions of the various phenomena involving this discourse but it can systematically pin down responses from countries in a more predictable manner not to mention cost efficiency and cost effectiveness so in this session we track the humanitarian development and peace issues vis-a-vis climate change, environment and human-centric phenomenon like migration and depending on how it fully manifests can be a negative or positive indicator of how the attendant risks are handled as we have consistently indicated climate change and environmental degradation are physical drivers which generate risk that can translate to impacts which may be translate intermediate or more permanent and long lasting a humanitarian situation is normally the result of unmanaged risk hence the materialization of impacts in the nature of a disaster a peace outcome is also a result normally transitioning from a conflict situation catalyzed by either physical or socio-economic drivers to one of lasting peace and development or the generation again into a humanitarian crisis and or undevelopment it is quite unclear therefore that physical drivers can catalyze socio-economic outcomes which may be positive or negative depending on how the coronary risk are managed but then again the drivers can also be triggered by human actions we would like to reiterate our strong recommendation to apply a systematic risk management framework in the management of this physical and socio-economic risk threatening our countries today we are further recommending the take up of the probabilistic risk assessment the result of which will under will underpin our anticipatory adaptation and sustainable development aspiration towards lasting peace and avoiding temporary or permanent migration of affected population on the issuance of on the issue of capacity building which we think is key to the efficient implementation of effective risk management actions we strongly recommend development of knowledge and competencies of all players on the conceptual notion as well as the practical applications of the risk management approach it is important that everyone involved in the comprehensive process level of on the basis as well the use of more innovative risk management approaches which will certainly need to evolve over time considering also the changing nature of the hazards and their attendant risk madam chair we'd like to thank you for this opportunity for giving the Philippines the shared thinking on these issues thank you then i would like to hand floor back to our moderator Angelica to have a closing remarks thank you thank you very much i think we have a few minutes left so every panelist if they want can give one last comment for me it's been a pleasure to sit through this and learn a lot from all of you but i will start with mr clarenbeck would you like to have some last words very well sure thank you very much angelica and thank you very much everyone for participating in this discussion for me the key message that i would like to repeat again is that climate change is a huge challenge a huge risk in many ways but climate adaptation can also be an opportunity an opportunity to rebuild if we do that in the proper way by focusing on learning by involving local actors and by listening to women and youth and asking what they need we can help build livelihoods build resilience and doing that also work on one of the key drivers and the key root causes of forced migration and displacement thank you very much thank you very much i like you know it's an opportunity it's something positive miss vendeniches i can't grata i can't pronounce your last name would you like to give a few words thank you angelica please don't worry about my last name it is also difficult for many Indonesians so just thank everyone for a very enlightening presentation i just won't like to reiterate some of my point of course the first on the need to enhance domestic capabilities both legal framework institutional building also ensuring educated resources at the national and local level to improve our effort to address the for example climate induced regular movement of people and second it's also important to build a regional approach that is tailor made to the situation of each respective region and of course the importance of multilateral governance framework to assist state in identifying gaps and missing link and of course we would like again to raise the importance of uphold and observe the principle of burdens and responsibility sharing so it's not just becoming another rhetoric i also would like to support a point made by the un ssr on ibp means jimenez de marie on the importance of having a human right center approach on migration now we have we already have tools to build such a cross at the national regional and international level for example the convention on the right of migrant workers and member of their family a lot of people forgot we have this convention so it is therefore important for us to promote universal ratification of this convention another point is as a fellow archipelagic nation i would like i think it's important to reiterate concern being raised by the prime minister of vg yesterday that we need to pay more attention on refugee coming from small island state who's not only existent culture but also its sovereignty in jeopardize because in jeopardy because of climate change now most of our discussion on climate change induce migration still very much focused on movement on land so i think it's important we take a issue on on this maritime aspect of migration and facing the challenge on climate change including its migration impact i think we should think this as a part of one planet rather as an individual country it's a it's a work for everyone thank you angelica thank you very much i do agree we have one planet and one humanity so you and special repeter mr cilia jimenez de marie you've already said so many good and profound words but i'm giving you the floor again okay well thanks again for the for for this opportunity i just would like to reiterate by my my message that addressing the the internal displacement and migration the context of climate change requires a holistic approach to the complexities and multi-closality of human mobility in this context requires individual and joint action but also it requires participation of the idps and the communities themselves and so that's my first message again but secondly also to ensure that when we include internally displaced persons in decision in in and have them participate in decisions affecting them we're also very clear about the specific needs and vulnerabilities of these groups but in any case to ensure that they are not only regarded as vulnerable but actually as agents of change and last but not the least of course in all these as a matter of normative principles we naturally adopt a human rights space approach thank you so much thank you so much we do agree with everything you say and now i am once again impressed by general nibba root those efforts in barundi and i wish i could speak better french but please general over to you thank you very much champ this is uh angelica bro man i'll be very brief first i would like uh here to promote the uh um early warning process and mechanisms i believe that that would be easier for the communities to be aware of the risks coming risks then the second point is about the development of the risk culture that would be very important to with like training sessions information sessions for the community so the communities here again would be better prepared when it comes to emergencies and that would promote also a resilience of these communities and that would be a kind of bridge for us between a humanitarian aid and development and my last message my last key message is about communication communication is essential when it comes to risk management natural disasters we need to be able to respond to emergencies and to do so we know a better communication so here again communities know exactly what to expect before during and after an emergency situation thank you very much mrs chair sure something uh mr andre harper had to leave for another session so i'm now handing over to ganasio if you're ready to take the floor it's for sure thank you very much so in in addition to the five key messages i would bring another one perhaps just to say that um um we have to turn things some of the things in a more positive aspects climate action is good for peace and and i think that also has to be brought into uh the way our narrative but also the way we work within the communities and we must certainly redouble our efforts in reducing the needs building back better has to be more ambitious it has to be reducing the needs thank you thank you all of you i think we've had amazing two hours i wish we had longer because these are huge issues but i think we're all agreeing that there are opportunities to building back better there are opportunities there are solutions we are there we can work together with an holistic approach coordinating using an humanitarian development and peace approach to enhance climate mitigation and adaptation including everyone in this process and have a participatory i think there's enough work for all of us so we don't have to find about that there will be a report from this event and i think it's also recorded so we can look at it again with no further ado i think we're a little bit over time but i would like to thank everyone who's organized the event and everyone attending and i wish we had more time as i said this is a huge issue and we will continue working on it iam is very very dedicated to work across the humanitarian development peace nexus and to assist all of you in this endeavor deshan would you like to have a last word before we close this session angelica i just actually first wish to thank you for a brilliant moderation i would like thank you for the all panelists and all uh participants that take the floor from the floor and i would like to welcome you for also tomorrow starting from nine new nine a.m. europe time or three p.m. juniva time see you tomorrow thank you thank you everyone and have a good rest of the day