IDM Second Session 2023 | The international organization of migration

The global response to climate change and human mobility is at a crossroads. Direct impacts of climate change, combined with slow-onset secondary effects such as declining agricultural productivity, could lead to internal migration of up to 216 million people by 2050, depending on the emissions scenario. According to Global Disaster Report 2020, an estimated 200 million people per year could be in need of humanitarian assistance by 2050 due to the combined effects of climate-related disasters and the socio-economic impacts of climate change.

In order to break this vicious cycle of instability, vulnerability and displacement, efforts must focus on how crisis risks are generated and how disaster risk reduction, humanitarian assistance and efforts sustainable development can adapt to changing and complex realities. At the International Dialogue on Migration (IDM) session in New York in March 2023, it was highlighted that there is an urgent need for more action to combat climate change and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

THE second session of the International Dialogue on Migration 2023which takes place on October 5-6 in Geneva, will build on the outcomes of the Kampala Declaration and the SDG Summit, and contribute to discussions at the Twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) and other upcoming key events, in particular the UN Future Summit 2024 and regional reviews of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. It will foster cross-thematic and cross-regional links, highlighting challenges, opportunities and good practices to help place climate mobility at the top of global and regional agendas.

Many opportunities exist to expand the range of solutions available to states, communities and other stakeholders to address human mobility in the context of climate change, from scaling up existing measures that have proven effective, to mutual learning and identifying different contexts in which solutions have been successful, to promote cooperation to develop new solutions.

WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SESSION?

Bringing together a wide range of stakeholders, including States, UN system organizations, civil society, the private sector, youth and migrants and their communities, to foster understanding, cooperation and trust at multiple levels between participants, create opportunities for collaboration on common projects. challenges linked to climate change and identify effective solutions to climate mobility.

WHAT ARE THE EXPECTED RESULTS OF THE SESSION?

• Formulating key messages for upcoming major events and high-level UN processes, such as COP28, to accelerate the development and implementation of solutions to climate mobility.
• To know which solutions work in contexts and foster collaboration to develop future solutions.