9 Members of the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) made an pressing name for enhanced cooperation and motion to handle the impacts of human mobility as a result of local weather change and environmental hazards on the folks of the area, together with large displacements, and financial and non-economic loss and harm, through the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Local weather Week 2023 held in Panama from October 22-27.
Dr. Clarence Henry, Senior Technical Officer of the Regional Integration Unit at OECS Fee, offered the “Ministerial Declaration on Migration and Local weather Change” on behalf of the Ministers of Nationwide Safety and Immigration of Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the British Virgin Islands, and Anguilla on Wednesday 25 October throughout a facet occasion on the area’s Local weather Week convention.
“OECS Ministers with accountability for immigration issues, in recognition of the excessive stage of vulnerability of the OECS area to the wide selection of environmental and local weather hazards, on this Ministerial Declaration articulate their deep concern for the adversarial impression of local weather change they usually place an pressing name on this Declaration for enhanced cooperation and motion that may deal with the next local weather change impacts: the huge displacement of populations; the various patterns of inside and worldwide migration; the necessity for relocations of communities most uncovered to environmental impacts; the necessity to deal with the information hole related to human mobility and the paucity of finance and the necessity for partnership to handle this hole.”
See the signed Ministerial Declaration here.
International stakeholders gathered in Panama on the LAC Local weather Week to debate and deal with the local weather disaster. Contributors acknowledged the necessity for a collaborative, region-wide response to successfully sort out the challenges forward, and praised the steps being made by the OECS within the growth of the “Cross-border Evacuation Protocol for International locations of the Japanese Caribbean within the Context of Disasters”, below a Joint Programme led by the UN Resident Coordinator’s Workplace in Barbados and Japanese Caribbean, and funded by the UN Belief Fund for Human Safety (UNTFHS).
The facet occasion was hosted by implementation companions from this programme – IOM-UN Migration, The UN Workplace for Catastrophe Danger Discount (UNDRR), the Platform on Catastrophe Displacement (PDD) and the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC) to place the suggestions of the Warsaw Worldwide Mechanism (WIM) Activity Pressure on Displacement into motion.
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