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Climate Refugees on the Agenda on the 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development

The 4th Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) is going to be held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, from 10 to 11 November. The GFMD is "a voluntary, informal, non-binding and government-led process" that is opened to all members and observers of the United Nations (UN) to discuss issues of migration anf development, through a better understading of the challenges faced and the sharing of experiences in order to reach "practical and actional-oriented outcomes." The GFMD has not highly structured functioning rules, but operates on the basis of some Operating Modalities.

The theme of the Mexico meeting has been defined as "Partnerships for migration and human development: shared prosperity - shared responsibility." The three Roundtables will focus on: (1) the partnerships for migration and development: partnerships for more regular and protected migration, joint strategies to address irregular migration; (2) human mobility and human development: focusing on labor mobility, and then migration, gender and family; and (3) policy and institutional coherence to address the relationship between migration and development.

Roundtable 3.2 will discuss the "relevance and impact of climate change on migration and development." The GFMD intends here to fill the gap between the wide theoretical research on the topic and the very few decisions in practice.

See among the already extensive literature on climate change and migration:
The Meeting should be structured around the following questions: What are the key issues for development raised by the impact of climate change on migration? Can migration be considered as a form of adaptation? Which partnerships can be created between governments and other actors to assess the effects of climate change on human mobility, and to address the possible migration flows resulting from climate change?

The GFMD will be preceeded, as usual, by the so-called Civil Society Days (8-9 Nov.) gathering an even broader audience. Climate change, migration and development will also be debated during the Civil Society Days.

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