CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – The Organisation of Jap Caribbean States (OECS) will launch a brand new high-level Ministerial Declaration on Migration, Surroundings and Local weather Change on Wednesday.
The Declaration will probably be launched on the Latin America and Caribbean Local weather Week (LACC) in Panama.
The OECS Fee mentioned OECS member states signed off on a ministerial declaration introduced on the OECS second Immigration Council of Ministers Assembly held on April 13, 2023, in Dominica.
It mentioned Jap Caribbean Small Island Creating States (SIDS) are recurrently uncovered to climate-related hazards, the influence of which is growing, leading to each inside and cross-border displacement.
These impacts threaten the human safety of at-risk populations within the area, limiting efforts to allow susceptible individuals to stay free from concern, free from need, and the chance to stay in dignity.
The Fee mentioned that the Ministerial Declaration demonstrates OECS member states and Affiliate Members’ dedication to mitigate local weather change influence and tackle human mobility regarding environmental degradation.
“It is a true reflection of the collective dedication among the many leaders of the OECS to take motion towards the local weather change phenomenon that threatens the very survival of our area,” mentioned OECS Fee Director Basic Dr Didacus Jules in help of the Declaration.
Challenge coordinator Viola Pascal famous, “Leveraging the multistakeholder, complete and people-centered rules central to the human safety method in realizing this high-level Ministerial Declaration may be very well timed to strengthen advocacy by OECS SIDS in direction of political and socioeconomic help to guard the at-risk inhabitants.”
The Ministerial Declaration is a major achievement underneath a joint human safety program applied by the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) in collaboration with the OECS Fee, the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (UNFCCC), and the Platform on Catastrophe Displacement (PDD) underneath the steering of the United Nations Resident Coordinator Workplace for Barbados and the Jap Caribbean.
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