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persons, children, indigenous peoples and minorities, older persons, persons with
disabilities and other groups;
(b) Build on lessons, guidance and commitments to address the
implications of climate change for migration and to foster people’s resilience to
remain in place with dignity or move as a form of adaptation;
(c) Improve cooperation between the different policy levels – local,
national, regional and global – which is essential to ensure protection throughout
the entire migration route, considering that migratory movements generally
start as internal movements from rural to urban contexts, but may be subject to
secondary relocations and cross-border migration. Involving city
administrations and regional organizations in international processes
concerning migration and development and including them in resource
allocation mechanisms is crucial to meet the objective of the enhanced protection
and integration of displaced people and migrants;
(d) Ensure that climate action not only reaches climate-vulnerable
countries but also reaches people moving in the context of climate change and
their host communities, in particular people living in unstable, vulnerable and
hard-to-reach areas;
(e) Scale up adaptation financing and support for climate action in
countries and host community areas in which migrants settle or to which they
hope to safely return following their displacement, by strengthening
preparedness and building resilience to climate impacts;
(f) Apply existing human rights and refugee instruments where there may
be the need for international protection when cross-border migration occurs in
the context of climate change and disasters;
(g) Increase action and support for measures to avert, minimize and
address displacement, in particular in the most climate-vulnerable countries and
communities, based on their specific needs. In this regard, ensure that human
rights are upheld through meaningful and informed voluntary participation in
timely relocation schemes;
(h) Address data gaps through the collection of disaggregated data, while
upholding the right to privacy and data protection. In addition, invest in the
collection, analysis and dissemination of sex-disaggregated data and gender
statistics on climate change impacts and migratory movements;
(i) Develop and implement gender-responsive migration policies that
protect and promote the human rights of migrant women and gender
non-conforming migrants in the context of climate change. Create genderresponsive regular migration pathways related to climate change which allow for
both temporary and permanent migration;
(j) Reduce the vulnerability of migrants by promoting regular pathways
for migration. These can take the form of visas (humanitarian, work or study),
humanitarian corridors established through partnerships with civil society
organizations, visa waivers for specific populations, family reunification,
regularization mechanisms based on human rights and humanitarian grounds,
and temporary protection measures allowing family members to join a relative
in a safe country;
(k) Take measures to promote access to essential services and take into
account the vulnerable situation and specific needs of migrants in the planning,
response and recovery phases of emergency management, in particular those of
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