 Thank you. Thank you, Director General. Now we'll continue with our opening sessions that actually is seen as a setting the scene session. And our first speaker is Mr. Ku Dongyu, Director General of Food and Culture Organization of the United Nations. Dr. Ku took the office on 2019 as Director General of FAU, fully engaging with HAU to eradicate hunger worldwide. Before coming to FAU, Ku served as a China Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, where one of his achievements was to promote inclusive and innovative development. Recognized for a scientific innovation as a young scholar, who has for 30 years been involved in international exchange and orchestrated major events, including international conference on plant protection and participating in multilateral initiative such as the World Trade Organization and the G20, as well as numerous bilateral initiative. He's also directly helped design flagship South-South cooperation project with FAU and the World Bank. Mr. Ku, the floor is yours. Thank you, moderate, dear, my colleague Antonia, ladies and gentlemen, good morning from Iran. Thank you for the importance of the food security and the climate change to the environment, especially those immigrants from the climate change, and both are closely connected to FAU's mandate to fight hunger, improve the food security, and the rural poverty, promote the sustainable management of natural resources, in spite of the hopes that the world would emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the food security would begin to improve, number of people affected by the hunger rose to as many as 828 millions in 2021, and increased about 190, 150 million since the outbreak of the pandemic. Around 2.3 million people in the world were moderately or severely food insecure in 2021, meaning they did not have access to adequate food. Close to 1 billion people are at risk of farming in the vulnerable countries. Well, at the same time, 3.1 billion people cannot afford a health diet. Through the insecurity, migration and displacement are the closely interconnected. 80% of the world displaced people are in the countries or territories affected by the acute food insecurity and malnutrition, and that face the climate risk and other disasters. The impacts of the climate crisis continue to negatively impact the food security through the extreme weather events and slow onset changes. The intergovernmental panel on climate change assessment points out that increased weather and climate extremes have already exposed millions of people to acute food insecurity and reduced water security. Climate-exposed sectors such as agriculture, forestry, fisheries, aquaculture and others are those most affecting. For example, five consecutive failed raining cities have led to the most severe drought in the recent history of the south and east part of the Aesopia, affecting the fragile livelihood of about 10 million people who are already food insecure. Slow onset changes in climate and weather patterns are also affecting agricultural system agro-environment and the people's livelihood. Productivity has been declining in the many countries due to the changes in temperature, severe weather and droughts. Rural people are most vulnerable as their livelihoods depend on local productivity by local natural resources. Irrigately, rainforests affected and unfaired a culture on the more than 80 percent of the cultivated land in the world, even in Europe during these years. Climate change is also affecting the posturalist and the fishing communities. Rural people have a few opportunities and resources to adapt and change the climate and repeat the exposure to the climate events increases the risk of poverty if without the resilience building and the investment. This is the placing a lot of pressure to migrate to the forcible displaced or trapped in the high risk area unable to move. F.O. is working with rural populations to address the adverse drivers of immigration and to ensure that immigration is their choice instead of necessity. This includes mitigating the negative impacts of the climate crisis on the rural livelihoods, creating alternatives to migration and the strengthening and disciplinary actions to avert the risk of the displacement. Recognize the rural areas by the greatest the better in the hosting larger numbers of the displaced people on one third of F.O. emergency and the resident foundation is located to address the challenges of the forced displacement since I came three years ago as a F.O.D.G. F.O. helps rural communities to better manage the climate related risks by promoting climate adaptation practices, the sustainable use and the management of natural resources under restoration of degrading the systems. In the Salvador, for example, where the changes in ways and the climate conditions are affecting agricultural production and pushing farmers to migrate, F.O. is working with the government to protect water resources for 1 million people and enhance the climate resilience of 50,000 small-holder farmers. Dear colleagues, it is important to also to see the migration as a potential positive force for the green transition and for the development of the green agricultural systems. The investment in migrants and the diaspora and the transfer of skills and knowledge in the climate resilience in the livelihood and climate smarter technologies can contribute to the promoting green agricultural business and the input access to the food. New pathways for the resilience should also look at the creating enabling conditions to harness the potential of migration for climate change adaptation in the area for region transit and destination. In this regard, F.O. has developed together with the United Nations, a global guide and two key to facilitate the integration of the human mobility into the national adaptation plans and the nationally determined contributions from the rural livelihood perspective. Evidence suggests that if government repurposes the resources they are using to incentivize the production supply and the consumption of the nutritious food, this will lead to a making half the dance more affordable and equitable for all. Governments need to urgently reexamine the agricultural trade and market interventions such as sub-stories and to ensure that the international trade continue to operate smoothly. Investing in the agricultural systems transformation and the long-term responses are is a key to strengthen the resilience of agricultural systems to risk including conflict, extreme weather, event, economic shocks. Addressing the infrastructure and the input supply bottlenecks is critical to an efficient food supply system. In fact, when the sustainable food supply, in fact, when the sustainable support to the small-holder farmers will be vital to ensure they are part of the solution and to localize the supply chance. This calls for multi-sector approaches and enhance the collaboration between policy actors at all levels. F.O. with its unique technical expertise make an important contribution to bridge migration in culture and climate stakeholders. It allows a mutual platform and leveraging its wider presence on the ground for the concrete result. Here are the qualities. We need to concert the efforts to achieve the more efficient, the more inclusive, more resilient and the most sustainable ecosystem to achieve our collective goals of the four factors at the country level, at the region level, at the global level. That is better production, better nutrition, a better environment, better life for all living no one behind. These objectives are set out in the effort strategy from work of 2020 to 2021 and we stand ready and firmly to work with the partners by hand in hand initiatives. Together we can achieve these goals in support of 2030 agenda and the sustainability of our goals. As thank you very much. Thank you, Director General. Now our next speaker at the opening session is actually will give us a video intervention online and this is the Director General of Health Organization, Mr. Tedros Adhanum Gabrielsus. Dear colleagues and friends, climate change threatens health on multiple levels. Displaced people are hit especially hard. Climate change affects the fundamental factors on which all health depends on air, water and food. It kills directly through heat waves, floods and droughts. And it can damage critical infrastructure leaving millions without health services. The catastrophic floods in Pakistan are a painful example of this. Warmer and water conditions make it easier for businesses including malaria, dengue, calcolera and dialysis to spread. Climate change threatens food security and nutrition. The millions facing famine in the greater Horn of Africa are a testament to this. The disruptive effects of climate change have forced millions to migrate. This exacerbates preexisting health inequalities. We must act to protect the physical and mental health and well-being of refugees and migrants. First, through building climate resilient and migrant sensitive health systems. Second, by including human mobility and health in national climate change action plans. And third, by taking a migration and health in all policies approach including food security. We need radical action to safeguard the health of the planet on which all life depends. I thank you. Thank you, Director General. Now we have another participant who is online with us. This is Mr. Yanis Lenarchic. He's European Commission for Crisis Management since 2019. Prior to that, Mr. Yanis was the permanent representative of Czechoslovakia to the EU in Brussels, State Secretary for European and Foreign Affairs in the Office of the Prime Minister in Ljubljana. Mr. Yanis has also been the Director of the OSCE, Office of Democratic Institution and Human Rights in Warsaw, State Secretary the head of the government for the European Affairs in Ljubljana and Ambassador and permanent representative of Slovenia and OSCE in Vienna. Mr. Lenarchic, the floor is yours. Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I wish to thank the international organization for migration for bringing us together today. Director General Vittorino, I would also like to thank you personally. Your opening remarks underscore the acute challenges facing some of the most vulnerable people in the world. More individuals have displaced from their homes now than at any other time in history. And we are seeing a complex interplay of crisis and threats driving people away in search for safety and protection, conflicts, food insecurity, water scarcity, climate change, disasters, and the lease goes on. Last week I was in Ukraine where the appalling suffering caused by the war will soon be overlaid by an additional enemy, winter. There are over 6 million IDPs in Ukraine. There are more than 7 million refugees from Ukraine who have been registered in Europe. At this critical time, our priority focus in Ukraine is to strengthen winterization. But in addition to conflicts, climate change is increasingly becoming a key driver of displacement. Earlier this month, I visited the flood-affected communities in Pakistan. With one third of the country under water, almost 8 million people were forced to live in displacement settings. Meanwhile, Nigeria was also hit by its worst flooding in a decade, which killed more than 500 people and displaced close to 1 million. We're also seeing the impact of slow onset events, such as droughts, which erode the livelihoods of communities until there is no other option but to live. This is what is happening in Somalia, where after four consecutive failed rain season, famine looms yet again. And similar situations are unfolding in the Sahel, in Yemen, and in other countries around the world. So what is the European Union doing to help address this crisis and the displacement that they are causing? At home, we are providing protection to the most vulnerable refugees by offering legal pathways to Europe. Since 2015, EU resettlement programs have helped more than 100,000 refugees find shelter in the European Union. They are now able to start a new life in safety and dignity. As part of our humanitarian programs, we are offering much needed assistance to those who have been displaced, both within their own countries and across borders. In the Sahel and the Lake Charles region, for example, the EU is mobilizing 40 million euros in emergency humanitarian funding. With this funding, we are providing food, water, shelter, and basic healthcare. In parallel, we are also looking to tackle the overlapping causes of displacement. For example, when food insecurity and climate risks meet, we provide humanitarian food assistance. And in parallel, we strengthen our support to local, sustainable, and resilient food systems. We are also adapting our humanitarian response to the impact of climate change, striving to act before disasters strike. We are progressively mainstreaming preparedness and anticipatory action throughout our EU-funded humanitarian operations. This year, we are chairing the Platform on Disaster Displacement, which will allow us to strengthen global coordination and action in areas where we need to act together. But we know that much more needs to be done by all of us. On this, allow me to share three points. First, we need to do more to close humanitarian funding gap. 64 percent of the world's humanitarian needs are unmet. For too long, we have been relying on a very small number of donors to provide the bulk of displacement, food, and climate-related aid. This is not sustained. We need to widen the donor base. Together with its member states, the European Union is inviting donors to increase their humanitarian aid budgets. This year, to date, almost 10 billion has been raised through dedicated pledging events, including for Sahel, all of Africa, Syria, and others. All of this is helping to support the world's most vulnerable communities, including displaced individuals and internally displaced persons. Second, we must continue our work on protection and international humanitarian law. Too many displaced people still remain without access to aid. The international community also needs to protect all displaced people, especially those individuals at risk of unsafe returns. And third, we must work on building resilience at local level. By strengthening cooperation between humanitarian and development actors, the nexus, we can support resilience and help countries withstand shocks, and ultimately break the cycle of disasters, destruction, displacement, and the debt. To conclude, ladies and gentlemen, the European Union is determined to support every effort to tackle the overlapping crisis facing our world, and to ensure displaced people get the assistance they need wherever they may find themselves. But we can only do this by working together. And this is why I really thank again to the IOM for organizing this dialogue. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Van Ertige. Our next speaker, actually in our next video statement, is coming from the Designate Egyptian President from the COP 27. His Excellency Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Mr. Samach Shoukri. Mr. Antonio Beatorino, Director-General of the International Organization for Migration, Excellency's distinguished participants. It gives me great pleasure to participate in the second session of the International Dialogue on Migration that addresses one of the most pressing challenges the world is facing today, namely the nexus between climate change and mobility. Climate migration became a reality that has been increasingly recognized as a key global policy issue which requires coherent and long-term solutions. Frequent and destructive disasters result in the displacement and forced migration of millions of people globally every year. In parallel, slow onset environmental degradation of ecosystems and loss and the implications of human-induced environmental changes can trigger displacement and undermined livelihoods and exasperates tensions in many parts of the world. The impacts of environmental degradation and climate change on migratory movements are felt in all regions of the world. Yet it is important to acknowledge the differentiated impacts depending on contextual factors such as economic, social, political, environmental, and personal circumstances. Statistics also show that displacement caused by disasters worldwide is more than double that caused by conflicts. With this bleak situation in mind, we cannot afford to be by standards. Major and urgent political efforts to mitigate climate change are critical to avert the most devastating consequences of this crisis on people and their environment. There is a need for a holistic, inclusive, and collaborative approach at national, regional, and global level with a view to promoting a more climate resilient and migrant inclusive society and economy. In my capacity as the COP 27 President-designate, we will seek to focus on enhancing implementation in order to set up rigorous and focused climate actions in cooperation with all relevant stakeholders. We need to ensure greater synergies between the global compact for migration, the Paris Agreement, the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to scale up action on climate change and migration, which places primarily emphasis on the well-being and rights of all humans without discrimination, enhance regular pathways for safe, orderly, and regular migration through fair recruitment that respects human dignity, as well as ensuring that migration remains a choice, not a necessity. Funding gaps must be addressed to help mobilize the necessary resources for disaster risk reduction, climate change mitigation, and adaptation, early warning systems, and long-term development programs. There is also a need to discuss predictable finance aligned with global climate commitments and the principles of equity and common but differentiated responsibilities to respond to current and future mobility scenarios in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and environmental degradation. Moreover, climate and environmental migration is a multi-causal phenomenon that requires comprehensive responses from different policy areas. Therefore, adopting a holistic governmental and societal approach is key to ensure that no one is left behind. Last but not least, we need a paradigm shift on humanitarian programming and funding for climate-induced mobility given the protracted nature of such crises. Short-term solutions aren't effective or economically sound. Response should adapt to tackle the compounding challenge and bolster resilience. More emphasis should be placed on developmental peace nexus to ensure sustainability and coherence in international efforts and pro-authorization in disaster preparedness. Excellencies, distinguished participants, before I conclude, I would like to highlight three issues that the COP 27 presidency elevated to the top of climate change agenda as they are essential to protecting livelihoods and preventing displacement whilst ensuring a green transition for our world. First, water security. Unpredictability of water cycles caused by severe problems such as water stress, displacement and conflict over resources with a continued lack of adaptation capacity, resilience, financial means and foresight planning and international and regional cooperation. Adaptation in the water sector becomes critical to how successful we address the effects of climate change. The action for water adaptation resilience initiative represents a call to address water as key to climate change adaptation and resilience. Second, food security. Agri-food systems are increasingly impacted by climate change. However, improving these systems offers a unique opportunity to address climate change by building resilience across these systems while reducing emissions. The food and agriculture for sustainable transformation initiative aims to be an accelerator to transform agri-food systems, drive effective actions and avoid duplications. Third, climate response for sustaining peace initiative focuses on the climate displacement, peace nexus and aim at discussing innovative ideas to advance durable solutions and accelerate climate finance for sustaining peace. The initiative will be implemented through activities on the policy, knowledge and operational fronts to strengthen resilience and address existing gaps. I believe that the COP 27 meetings that will start in a few days in Sharma Sheikh will provide a timely opportunity to reflect on how to shape response to the related challenges because we cannot continue to do business as usual since failure to act in a coordinated and preventive manner to mitigate and adapt to the adverse effects of climate change and to address displacement and its root causes could undermine peace, stability and prosperity in countries of origin and destination alike. I thank you. Our last speaker on our opening session is here with us in person. This is Mr. Abdi Rakhman, Abdi Shakur, Special Presidential Member for Drought Response in Somalia. Honorable Abdi Rakhman, Abdi Shakur was appointed as the Federal Government of Somalia Special Presidential Member for Drought Response by the President of Somalia in May 2022. He was chief negotiator for the Alliance for the Real Rebellation of Somalia at the Djibouti Conference, which led to the formation of the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia. When the first post-transitional government was set up back in 2012, he was appointed to the Senior Policy Advisor to the President and in 2014, the Special Envoy, just the United Nations Assistant Mission in Somalia as a Special Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Somalia. Mr. Abdi Rakhman, please floor is yours. Ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues, this IDM will be timely in the lead-up to the 27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Confinition of Climate Change COP 27, taking place in Egypt. I am building on the successful outcome of the first international migration review forum to strengthen action to address complex interlinks between climate change, food security, and human mobility. I thank IOM for organizing this conference and inviting me to this crucial dialogue. Food insecurity is a growing global challenge and it's becoming a greater cause to displacement and migration. With only eight years left to achieve the sustainable development goal of zero hunger, one in ten people do not have enough to eat. Boffert, growing population, diseases, conflict, climate change, and change to the global economies and geopolitics are belaying key role in the global food emergencies. According to the IBCC climate crisis could lead, at least 183 million people facing hunger by 2050. Dear colleagues, hunger could become a negative pandemic. A warming planet affects how food is growing and distributed. A number of climate change-related disasters like extreme heat, drought, and flood has doubled since the early 1990s. Harvest has been shrinking and crops ravaged by the best, like, enormous locus that devastated the land of Africa and particularly in my country, Somalia. Drought costs, harvests to foil, repeatedly bringing nation's crop production down to 70 percent and the death of more than three million livestock. The climate change intensifies, the temperature rises, food crisis will become the norm rather than the exception. Ukraine has shown how disruption to the critical food production regions can have severe knock-on efforts across the globe, felt muslin keenly by the developing and poorer countries as well. According to the World Bank, global food prices are on track to rise 23 percent this year, having already risen 31 percent in 2021. Climate change is also making food less nutritious. The oceans are affected too. As water gets warmer, it is forcing fish that prefers certain temperatures to move to new areas. Today, around half of Somali's population are food insecure. More than one million people have displaced by the drought, which is worse in 40 years. Half of million children are facing acute malnutrition. The country is on the brink of the farming. Every cycle of drought and farming creates another mass disabilisement and new IDPs. As such, it will significantly contribute to the international migration in the Horn of Africa and to the Gulf regions. Food insecurity is not only a driver of migration, but it's also the threat to Somali's peace and stability by leading to increased intercommunal filings, rise in jailed marriages, gender-based filings, and youth for an ability to the recruitment by the extremist group. Over the past months, I have been traveling to different capitalists in North America and Europe to seek strengthening partnership with the government and Somali diaspora, hoping to urgently prevent infighting and mitigate a growing catastrophe before hundreds of thousands of people die. And Somalia's hard-worn political and security achievement will be revised by this crisis and before our full potential has been realized. I thank our partners for their ongoing support. But the situation in my country demands meaningful investments in infrastructure, technology and renewable energy, food and green energy production, sustainable farming, fishing, forestry, and water management practices, which is a key to building resilience in our communities in order to adapt and mitigate the effect of the climate change. I must say that our government cannot do alone. We need to support and voice from all our partners, friends, and donors. At the regional level, Somalia was one of the countries to endorse the compiler ministerial declaration on migration, environment, and climate change, which outlines East Africa's combined ambition to prioritize, respond, to a galvanized global support for taking climate change-induced migration and displacements. Climate change is not going to stop anytime soon, nor is migration. We need to diversify food production across diets, supply chains, and markets, and address the in-depthness, economic inequalities, and market distortions that have contributed to the current crisis. We need a coordinated effort across all sectors to rethink and repair our food system, making them more equitable, more resilient, and more responsive in times of great need. We need destination countries to acknowledge that there are labor markets due in fact to need people by bringing them out of the shadows into the safety and regular immigration status. Happening for the first time in Africa next to COP 27 is a key opportunity to gain support from the international community to break cycle Somalis out of this ongoing cycle of crisis. In Somalia, and I'm sure this is the case for many other countries, we need access to climate justice fund to help us make the urgent change need to protect our communities. Ultimately, we need global leaders to jump beyond climate action to reduce the shocks that we're already feeling. We need polluting countries to cut their emissions so that the goal of the Paris Agreement can be achieved. Helping vulnerable families co-op with the climate change will bring us closer to the ending hunger in Somalia and other countries of the continent. To our country becoming a contributor to the food security and sustainable energy production and ensuring that stability, life and livelihood opportunities are available for our young people at home. Finally, I thank IOM for not only hosting us and bringing us together in this forum, but also as a realable partner for Somali government and particularly for my office. I thank you very much. Thank you our last speaker and opening session and now I would like to give the possibility to those that are still with us to give a final thought and final message for us to work on in the next two days. We still have EU commission on Linearchic online and I would like to give them the floor first to give us the message around which we should focus a little bit more the next two days. Mr. Linearchic, please. Do we have him still online? Okay, then I would like now to come back to Mr. Abri Ahmad for the final message to us. I thank you again for having and bringing us together for this critical dialogue. It seems to me that as I outlined my speech and my remarks that food insecurity is impacted by the global other global challenges, if 2020 was the year of the coronavirus pandemic, our concern and fear is that maybe 2022 or 23 is becoming the pandemic of the food crisis. So I think we really need to have a dialogue and critical dialogue and how can we address this issue before it comes to a pandemic and we felt the food importance of food security out of the coronavirus and as well as the green crisis has shown us that how the world is interlinked and it impacts to each other and it can have impacts even the developed countries. They also felt as our poorer countries how the food security are very important and we need to invest in that. Also as coming from Somalia where four consecutive rainy season has failed because of the climate change and the entire Hanoi Africa are facing that drought and extreme heat that only can be dealt with not short-term humanitarian assistance but we need to be addressed the root cost of this crisis with the climate change unless we have the opportunity for our communities to have build their resilience in order to adapt the extreme weather and mitigate the fallout of the climate change. We will continue facing that food insecurity and humanitarian crisis. So I'm calling again that we need to invest and building the resilience and building and mitigating the climate fallout and that cannot happen and cannot be done by the countries that are affected by the climate change unless we get and have access to the climate justice finance and have access to the funding that's been allocated to address the climate impacts and I call again we have to stand for and unite our effort to bring that critical issues on the coming COP 27 in Cairo. Thank you again. Thank you sir and I will actually refer to Antonio Vitrino director general of IEM. Mr. Vitrino please. Thank you so much. I will start by thanking all the panelists. I think that in order to set the scene we had a very broad spectrum of testimonies about the challenges that we are confronted with. The issue of food security is a critical issue today and it will be an even more critical issue tomorrow. In my take today we are above all confronted with a problem of distribution and rising of prices. Unfortunately due to the conflict in Europe and due to the impacts of climate change a little bit everywhere in the world next year we will head to the problem of distribution a significant problem of production. Of being able that the agro production worldwide is capable to met the needs of the people all over the world and therefore I think that one of the focus on food production and food distribution is critical to guarantee that we are capable to cope with the humanitarian catastrophes that we are witnessing be it because of conflict because of floods because of drought of slow onset environmental degradation. My second point is about the need to give visibility and raise awareness for the urgent need of adaptation mitigation and disaster risk reduction. In fact those actions require support transfer of technology and investment and our firm belief is that if we do not do it now it will be much more costly in the future in terms of human lives in terms of humanitarian crisis in terms of social uproar. So the priority for COP 27 is to call the attention of the international community for the urgent need of focusing on adequate human capital technological transfer and financial support for adaptation mitigation risk reduction and building the resilience of the communities because the communities that are more impacted by climate change do not want to move they want to go on living on the places where they live but when they are forced to move they do it against their will and for the time being the forced displacement because of climate change is above all internal displacement. We are witnessing a large number of internally displaced people some of them will be able to return back to the regions of origin others will not be able to return to the regions of origin but for both of them those return and those who are not able to return we need to find durable solutions and the challenge is what kind of hope and perspectives for the future can we give to the people that are forcibly displaced because of climate change and at the end of the day migration is only one part of the narrative but in some cases if people are internally displaced if they don't find durable solutions they will go on moving they will go on moving and sooner or later they will cross an international border and they will become international migrants IOM is very much focused on monitoring these situations on identifying the places where the risk is higher and trying to mobilize the international support to the governments and the local authorities and the civil societies to cope with the challenges of climate change so we look very much forward to your insights during these your debates during three days during these two days to help us preparing for COP 27 and for our programmatic action in the future thank you so much for to the panelists again and here I conclude my opening remarks thank you thank you to director general and all opening speaker for setting the scene now we'll just quickly change our scene for the panel one and we are starting with the panel one of our work just a small technical note for those that would like to speak and actually would like to intervene after the panel one will be possible after the opening session was not foreseen therefore whoever asked for the floor after the opening session will be given the floor after the panel one thank you