The International Organization for Migration (IOM), established in 1951, is the leading intergovernmental organization working on migration and is part of the UN system as a related organization. IOM supports governments and communities on migration management, humanitarian response, displacement, resettlement and policy development. Climate change is increasingly treated as a factor that interacts with economic, social, environmental and political pressures to influence where and how people move. In a committee setting, IOM is well suited to examine both humanitarian protection and long-term migration planning.
 

Agenda: Formulating international responses to climate migration and displacement
 

Climate-related migration is complex: people may move because of sudden disasters, gradual environmental change, loss of livelihoods, water stress, sea-level rise or combinations of these pressures with poverty and conflict. Some movement is temporary, some permanent, and some may occur within national borders. The agenda should therefore avoid treating all climate-related movement as a single legal category. Delegates may consider anticipatory relocation, disaster preparedness, planned resettlement, temporary protection, labour mobility pathways, urban planning, cross-border cooperation, financing for vulnerable communities and the protection of migrants who lack a clear status under existing refugee law.