R6: A Greens Policy focused on Climate Migration and Displacement

R6A1 was approved in the Resolutions Session of 08 June. The changes are included in the final text

FINAL TEXT, AS AGREED BY THE PROPOSERS OF THE RESOLUTION, AND THE AMENDMENTS (AUSTRIAN GREENS)

We the Greens Movement and Greens Parties resolve to develop effective global,
regional/Federation, national and local policies on Climate Migration and
Displacement; and address increasing climate change impacts as adverse drivers
of climate migration and displacement, increasing insecurity, uncertainty and
vulnerability amongst all climate migrants and in climate-impacted
environments; and lobby for strengthened protections, improved supports and

accessible assistance for climate migrants; and create new, flexible and rights-
respecting regular pathways adequate to the magnitude of current and future

climate and environmental impacts; and such initiatives should respond to the
acute and immediate crises and plan strategically for long-term impacts of
climate change; and as per the agreements contained in the 2018 Global Compact
for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) and all other relevant
instruments.

1. We the Greens, must advocate for legal protections of people forcibly displaced due

to the climate crisis and environmental disasters.

2. We the Greens, must support urgent investment in people and programs to
mitigate risks and threats as drivers of unsafe and disorderly migration, and
associated violations of human rights and resulting inequalities

3. We the Greens, must support focus on the needs of most at-risk populations in
climate adaptation planning and implementation and include the development of
sustainable decent work options to promote greater resilience for communities,
particularly from future shocks.

4. We the Greens, must endorse focused long-term planning and not just reactive
short-term solutions to ensure that climate adaptation and resilience measures
make migration a choice and not a necessity.

5. We the Greens, must support lobbying and implementation of financing for loss
and damage in climate-impacted countries, where displaced communities are at
risk of having to move across borders for their safety and wellbeing.

6. We the Greens, must endorse the establishment and strengthening of joint
mechanisms to monitor and anticipate risks and threats that might trigger or affect
migration movements, including supporting the strengthening of early warning
systems, developing emergency procedures and toolkits, launching emergency
operations, and supporting post-emergency recovery.

7. We the greens, should advocate for stronger provision of funding, material as well
as human resources to provide immediate and long-term support in the aftermath
of natural disasters.

8. We the greens, should advocate for stronger immediate and long-term support to
displaced communities. We could especially advocate for all countries to uphold
their financial pledges to the UNHCR.

9. We the Greens, should endorse recording and accounting for migrants in national
emergency preparedness and response, including taking into consideration
relevant recommendations from States-led (but not States only) consultative
processes, such as the Guidelines to Protect Migrants in Countries Experiencing
Conflict or Natural Disaster (MICIC Guidelines).

10. We the Greens, should endorse the development of adequate investment in
adaptation and resilience strategies to reduce risks of displacement and distress
migration in the face of sudden-onset disasters as well as slow-onset processes such
as desertification, land degradation, drought and sea level rise.

11. We the Greens, should support the increased developments and/or strengthening
of existing national and regional practices for transit, admission and stay of
appropriate duration based on compassionate, humanitarian or other
considerations for migrants compelled to leave their countries of origin due to
sudden-onset climate and environmental disasters.

12. We the Greens, could endorse the further development of relevant policies that
strengthen safe and legal pathways for relocation, whilst recognising that

adaptation in or return to countries of origin may not not possible with relocation
and visa options, including humanitarian visas, private sponsorships and work
permits, and inclusive access to education for children.

13. We the Greens, could advocate for asylum trials that are fair, appropriate and

agreed to by all negotiating parties.

14. We the Greens could condemn the persecution of human rights abuses within
migration routes, such as illegal detention and illegal push-backs, financial
exploitation as well as physical, mental and sexual abuse.

15. We the Greens, could advocate for measures to particularly protect children and
young adults from exploitation within migration routes and ensure that they are
properly documented and provided adequate care within recipient countries.
16. We the Greens, could lobby for strengthened solutions for and with migrants
compelled to leave their countries of origin due to slow-onset disasters, such as
desertification, land degradation, drought, and sea level rise, including by devising
planned relocation strategies, in cases where adaptation in or return to country of
origin is not possible. As governments take on the mandate of the 2018 Global
Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM) to enhance better regular
migration pathways, these pathways should account for projected climate
displacement. As the climate crisis worsens, governments cannot wait to develop a
plan to integrate climate migrants into societies and economies.

17. We the Greens, could endorse strengthened international and regional cooperation
to improve coherence between the GCM and other existing frameworks, in order
to avert, minimize and address loss and damage associated with climate-related
displacement and migration, and to ensure that people moving for climate-related
reasons receive support, protection and assistance in fulfillment of their human
rights. Such frameworks include the UN Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC), in particular the Taskforce on Displacement under the
UNFCCC’s Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage (WIM), which
was established and recognized in the Paris Agreement Article 8, to reduce losses
and damage from climate change.

18. We the Greens could work towards reducing barriers to integration in recipient
regions and countries and provide access to language education, schooling,
housing, and the labour market.