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negotiation) offers an opportunity to help ensure the effective mobilization of resources for
climate change mitigation and adaption measures that protect persons on the move. 54
56.
Furthermore, businesses also have a role to play in mobilizing resources to achieve
international objectives related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and human
mobility. For example, article 6 of the Paris Agreement calls upon parties to incentivize and
facilitate the private sector’s participation in climate change mitigation. In doing so, States
should include adequate safeguards and take effective measures to protect human rights
from business harms in line with their obligations under the Guiding Principles on Business
and Human Rights. Businesses should participate responsibly in climate change mitigation
and adaptation efforts with full respect for human rights.
IV. Illustrative good practices
57.
The following analysis highlights some illustrative good practices in promoting a
rights-based approach to human mobility challenges posed by climate change that were
identified through stakeholder inputs and OHCHR research.
58.
Collective efforts by United Nations agencies, States and other stakeholders are
needed to address the complex intersection of human rights, human mobility and climate
change. Part III of the present report contains a number of multi-stakeholder efforts to
develop legal and policy frameworks that protect persons crossing borders in the context of
climate change. The State-led Platform on Disaster Displacement 55 was established to
follow up on the work of the Nansen Initiative and to implement its protection agenda. The
Platform aims to strengthen the protection of people displaced across borders in the context
of disasters, including those linked to the effects of climate change, and to prevent or
reduce disaster displacement risks. Other multi-stakeholder efforts include, for example, the
Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific, which adopts a human rights-based
approach and includes specific guidance related to disaster risk reduction and migration; 56
and the Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development, which contributes
to better understanding of the determinants of human movement.57
59.
International reporting and communications processes under the Framework
Convention, the Human Rights Council and the human rights treaty bodies can play an
important role in the development, monitoring and review of national policies related to
human rights, human mobility and climate change. For example, 33 out of 162 intended
nationally determined contributions to the Framework Convention before the twenty-first
Conference of the Parties referenced some form of mobility. 58 Unfortunately, research
indicates that the number of States including references to human rights in their
communications to the Framework Convention or to the adverse effects of climate change
during their Human Rights Council universal periodic review are similarly limited. 59
Climate change and human mobility have also come up in the work of human rights treaty
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For more information on integrating human rights in the guidelines, see
www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/HRAndClimateChange/Pages/UNFCCC.aspx.
See https://disasterdisplacement.org/.
See Pacific Community, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Pacific Islands
Forum Secretariat, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction and the University of the South Pacific, Framework for Resilient Development in the
Pacific: An Integrated Approach to Address Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, 2017–
2030, (Suva, 2016). Available at https://pacificclimatechange.net/sites/default/files/documents/
FRDP_2016_Resilient_Dev_pacific.pdf.
See www.knomad.org/.
See IOM, “Migration in the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions and Nationally
Determined Contributions” (2016), available at
www.environmentalmigration.iom.int/sites/default/files/MECC%20Infosheet%20INDCs%20and%20
NDCs_14Sep2016_for%20web.pdf.
See Mary Robinson Foundation, “Climate Justice: Incorporating Human Rights into Climate Action”
(May 2016), available at www.mrfcj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Incorporating-Human-Rightsinto-Climate-Action-Version-2-May-2016.pdf.
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