Delegates from nearly 200 countries, leaders of business and finance, and representatives of civil society has gather in Dubai from November 30 to December 12 for the COP28 climate conference with the aim of fast-tracking the transition to a clean-energy future.
Whereas Mr. Rabeya Begum (Executive Director, SDS) spoke at a panel discussion on ‘Climate-Induced Migrant Resilient Communities’, a side-event at COP 28.
She highlighted vulnerabilities of the disaster risk exposed people and communities living in the river basin areas who are at the forefront of being displaced and migrated by flooding and riverbank erosion that already became frequent and intense with the rise of global average temperature.
She also discussed limits and limitations of humanitarian assistance, which is far short of requirement and only support short-term emergency needs. Displacement and migration involves secondary and tertiary risks resulting from the residual impacts of both sudden slow onset event.
We need to think beyond the existing scope of Humanitarian Assistance so that issues related to displacement and migration, including rights of the displaced and migrated people and communities could be protected.
