Submissions on internal and cross-border migration, displacement and other forms of human mobility

The Executive Committee of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage invited relevant organizations and experts to provide knowledge, data and scientific information on both internal and cross-border migration, displacement and other forms of human mobility owing to factors related to climate change impacts, including in combination with other factors.

Submissions received

Organization/expert	Date received
Information submitted by the Center for Participatory Research and Development (CPRD): >>> Climate-Induced Displacement and Migration: Policy Gaps and Policy Alternative, November 2015 >>> Displacement and migration from the climate hot-spots: causes and consequences, December 2011	3 Apr 2016
Information submitted by Mr. Michael van der Valk: >>> Climate change, water stress, conflict and migration, 2012	5 Apr 2016
Information submitted by Mr. Eric Mwangi Njoroge, University of Dar es Salaam: >>> Africans humanitarian action in migration policy: adjusting to environment and climate change, Summary and proposed policy actions for the first 1,000 days of the SDGs, April 2016	7 Apr 2016
Information submitted by the International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law: >>> Draft Convention on the International Status of Environmentally-Displaced Persons, by Michel Prieur >>> Universal Declaration on Environmentally-Displaced Persons, prepared by the International Centre of Comparative Environmental Law >>> Recommendation sent to the Conference of Rio+20, Symposium of Limoges, October 2011	15 Apr 2016
Information submitted by Dr. David Cantor, Refugee Law Initiative: >>> Migrants and natural disasters: National law, policy and practice in the Americas, February 2016 >>> Regional Discussion Paper: Focus on the Latin American Experience, February 2016 >>> Disasters and displacement in a changing climate, May 2015 >>> Law, policy and practice concerning the humanitarian protection of aliens on a temporary basis in the context of disasters, February 2015	19 Apr 2016
Information submitted by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP): >>> Loss and Damage Gap Analysis from Climate Change, Kiribati Country Report, June 2015 >>> Loss and Damage Gap Analysis from Climate Change: Samoa Country Report, June 2015 >>> Loss and Damage Gap Analysis from Climate Change: Vanuatu Country Report, June 2015 >>> Consolidated Reply by the Climate Change & Development Community of the Pacific Solution Exchange on the query "Promoting Economic Migration as a Climate Change Adaptation Strategy. Experiences; Advice", June 2014 >>> Consolidated Reply by the Climate Change & Development Community of the Pacific Solution Exchange on the query "Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts-Advice; Experience", August 2013 >>> Case Study on Loss and Damage in Kosrae (Micronesia), Simpson Abraham	19 Apr 2016
Information submitted by Mr. John Bamgbose, Ajayi Crowther University, Nigeria: >>> Stemming the tide of climate change-induced migration on developing economies: a case study of Nigeria in the post 2015 era (abstract)	22 Apr 2016
Information submitted by Displacement Solutions: >>> The rights of climate displaced persons: a quick guide, April 2015 >>> Climate change and displacement in the autonomous region of Gunayala, Panama, July 2014 >>> Climate displacement in Bangladesh: stakeholders, laws and policies - mapping the existing institutional framework, July 2014 >>> The peninsula principles on climate displacement within states, August 2013 >>> Finding land solutions to climate displacement: a challenge like few others, October 2013 >>> Climate displacement in Bangladesh, May 2012	8 May 2016
Information submitted by Mr. Bruce Burson and Prof. Richard Bedford: >>> Opportunities and challenges in facilitating voluntary adaptive migration in the Pacific in the context of climate change	9 May 2016
Information submitted by Tulele Peisa Inc: >>> Submission and map >>	13 May 2016
Information submitted by Prof. Jane McAdam: >>> Under Two Jurisdictions: Immigration, Citizenship, and Self-Governance in Cross-Border Community Relocations, May 2016 >>> International Law and Sea-Level Rise: Forced Migration and Human Rights, January 2016 >>> Human rights, climate change and cross-border displacement: the role of the international human rights community in contributing to effective and just solutions, August 2015 >>> Lessons from planned relocation and resettlement in the past, May 2015 >>> Planned Relocations in the Context of Climate Change: Unpacking the Legal and Conceptual Issues, 2015 >>> Creating New Norms on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Displacement: International Developments 2010-2013, 2014 >>> Caught between homelands, March 2013 >>> Climate Change Displacement and International Law: Complementary Protection Standards, May 2011 >>> Swimming against the Tide: Why a Climate Change Displacement Treaty is Not the Answer, March 2011 >>> Displacement with Dignity: International Law and Policy Responses to Climate Change Migration and Security in Bangladesh, 2010 >>> Publications on Climate Change, Disasters and Mobility	13 May 2016
Information submitted by Ms. Robin Bronen: >>> Climate-induced community relocations: using integrated social-ecological assessments to foster adaptation and resilience, 2015 >>> Choice and necessity: relocations in the Arctic and South Pacific, February 2014 >>> Adaptive governance and institutional strategies for climate-induced community relocations in Alaska, June 2013 >>> Climate-induced displacement of Alaska native communities, January 2013 >>> Climate-induced community relocations: creating an adaptive governance framework in human rights doctrine	15 May 2016
Information submitted by United States National Committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (US/ICOMOS): >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): >>> Guidance on protecting people from disasters and environmental change through planned relocation, October 2015 >>> UNHCR, the environment and climate change, October 2015	16 May 2016
Information submitted by the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School: >>> Submission >>> Designing a climate change displacement coordination facility: key issues for COP21, September 2015	16 May 2016
Information submitted by the International Bar Association, sub-working group on human mobility: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Prof. Thomas McGovern: >>> Initial report of the climate change strategies and archeological resources committee, January 2016 >>> Global environmental change threats to heritage and long term observing networks of the past >>> IHOPE and SAA initiatives on climate change threats	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Ms. Marcy Rockman: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Prof. Susan Martin: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Ms. Victoria Herrmann: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by the International Organization for Migration (IOM): >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Turkey: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Mr. John R. Campbell: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Ms. Patty Ferguson-Bohnee: >>> Submission	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Dr. Kristina Peterson: >>> Submission >>> Resettlement principles >>> Matrix	16 May 2016
Information submitted by the Platform on Disaster Displacement: >>> Agenda for the protection of cross-border displaced persons in the context of disasters and climate change, Nansen Initiative (Volume I and Volume II)	16 May 2016
Information submitted by Ms. Hee-Eun Kim: >>> Changing climate, changing culture: Adding the climate change dimension to the protection of intangible cultural heritage	16 May 2016