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(a) States should work together to reduce climate change by cooperating
to reduce global warming by committing to reduce greenhouse gases, including
through identifying clear targets through commitments within the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;
(b) Considering the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on climatechange-induced migration, States, and especially States with economic means,
should provide more support for research on climate-change-induced
migration, including on the definition of such migration, and the production of
reliable disaggregated statistical data, that would allow policymakers at all
levels of governance to identify the populations most at risk of climate-changeinduced displacement and develop strategies to alleviate their vulnerability;
(c) In their assessment and planning programmes for devising
mitigation and adaptation strategies in order to cope with climate change,
States must identify the priority vulnerable populations who are susceptible to
migrate internally or internationally for causes at least partly related to climate
change, as well as those who should migrate but are not able to do so, and
identify their specific needs;
(d) States should support civil society organizations that give a voice to
such vulnerable populations, including migrants or potential migrants, with a
view to ensuring their meaningful participation in all the deliberations
regarding their future as citizens and/or migrants;
(e) States should devise and implement local and national migration
policies and strategies to facilitate internal climate-change-induced migration,
where needed, including through building urban infrastructure that is
sustainable, flexible and inclusive in order to accommodate internal migrants.
Such policies and strategies should fully respect their domestic laws and
obligations under international human rights norms and standards, including
the political participation of vulnerable populations, as well as means of redress
available to migrants against human rights violations;
(f) States should devise and implement regional migration policies and
strategies to facilitate international climate-change-induced migration, where
needed, including through the negotiation, conclusion and implementation of
regional migration agreements. Such policies and strategies should be elaborated
by all States concerned within the region, with the support and assistance of donor
States. Such policies and strategies should also be elaborated with the support and
collaboration of regional intergovernmental organizations, international
organizations, international financial institutions, international NGOs and civil
society organizations. Such policies and strategies should fully respect the
international and regional human rights frameworks, including appropriate
human rights guarantees for all migrants, the political participation of the
vulnerable populations concerned in all decisions regarding their migration, as well
as means of redress available to all migrants against human rights violations;
(g) Regional intergovernmental organizations, international organizations
and international financial institutions should support, facilitate and, where
necessary, initiate, the negotiation of such agreements, through political
leadership, financial assistance and technical support.
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