Loss and damage and displacement: Key messages for the road to COP 28

This advocacy brief calls for the mainstreaming of population displacement and other human mobility into policy and practice addressing loss and damage related to climate change.  It argues that displacement, forced migration and other forms of involuntary human mobility must be central to addressing climate change-related loss and damage. 

Climate-related displacement undermines human rights, well-being and development, resulting in a broad range of adverse impacts on individuals, communities, societies and States, raising important questions and concerns regarding climate justice. Any comprehensive approach to addressing climate-related loss and damage must endeavour to avert, minimise and provide equitable and just solutions to the adverse impacts of displacement.