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The Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter is produced as part of the "Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy" (MECLEP) project, funded by the European Union, implemented by IOM. 

Environmental Migration Portal Newsletter
Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate
March 2015
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Migration, Environment and Climate Change (MECC) Updates 
Human Rights Council discusses climate change and human rights

On 06 March 2015, the Human Rights Council devoted a full-day to discuss the relationship between climate change and human rights and its implication on a number of rights such as rights to food, housing and self-determination. The human rights of people moving in a context of a changing climate was also brought up to the discussions.  Photo © CVF 2015  
Geneva Climate Change Conference 

 The Geneva Climate Change Conference was organized under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations process from 8 to 13 February 2015. Following the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP20), this new round of negotiations sought to refine the draft negotiating text proposed last year in the Lima Call for Climate Action, as the 192 Parties to the Convention aim to reach a new global climate change protocol in Paris, at the December 21st Conference of  the Parties (COP21).  The official draft negotiating text that emerged from this round of negotiations retains the reference to the establishment of a “climate change displacement coordination facility” (paragraph 33) as put forward in Lima last year. Photo © IISD 2015  
Perspectives on Global Development 2016: Expert meeting on international migration and development

 An expert meeting for the OECD Perspectives on Global Development report on international migration and development took place at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, on 24 and 25 February. A specific session was dedicated to the issues of environmental and climate change  their impacts on migration flows. 
 

105th Session of IOM Council

The 105th session of IOM Council gave specific visibility and preeminence to the topic of migration, environment and climate change, in particular the High Level Panel on Human Mobility, Environment and Climate.
PHOTO EXHIBIT - “Environmental Migrants: the Last Illusion”, in collaboration with photographer Alessandro Grassani (right with IOM Director General William Lacy Swing) was held during the IOM Council. 
© IOM 2014 (Photos: Rosebell Kagumire)
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MECLEP Project Updates
Household surveys started in Haiti among the six pilot countries in January 2015. The MECLEP team and IOM Haiti held the researcher workshop then pilot tested the MECLEP household survey questionnaire in Port-au-Prince. Surveys will continue in Gonaives and La Marmelade in March 2015. 
 
Andrea Milan of UNU-EHS (right) is discussing the questionnaire with the survey team in Haiti.  
© IOM 2015 (Photos: Susanne Melde) 

Research Database Updates
Climate change in the Fertile Crescent and implications of the recent Syrian drought
Envisioning South-South relations in the fields of environmental change and migration in the Pacific Islands - past, present and futures
An Atlas of the Sahara-Sahel: Geography, Economics and Security
Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change: Recommendations from the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility COP20 Lima, Peru
State of Environmental Migration 2014 - A review of 2013
IOM Outlook on Migration, Environment and Climate Change
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Media Highlights

Upcoming Events
Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction 
Sendai, Japan. 14-18 March 2015. 

“Environmental change and Society” Week.
United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) and Campus Euro-Latino-Américain de Sciences Po, Poitiers (Sciences Po).
Poitiers, 23-27 March 2015

MECLEP Dominican Republic Researcher Training Workshop 
13-15 April 2015. 

National consultations in Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal 
Forthcoming in March/April 2015

MECLEP Papua New Guinea Researcher Training Workshop
Madang, Papua New Guinea. 6-8 May 2015. 

MECLEP Viet Nam Researcher Training Workshop 
Hanoi and Ho Chi Min City, Viet Nam. June 2015. 

12th IMISCOE Annual Conference: Rights, Democracy and Migration
Geneva, Switzerland. 25-27 June 2015. 

COST Workshop: Human migration and the Environment: Futures, Politics, Invention.
Durham University, UK. 28 June-1 July 2015. 
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MECC: Policy Brief Series - Issue 2
Remittances and disaster: Policy implications for disaster risk management

Loic Le De, J.C. Gaillard and Wardlow Friesen
School of Environment, University of Auckland
 
Drawing on a research project based in Samoa and New Zealand, this Brief provides potential policy options to integrate remittances within current disaster risk management practices. The paper identifies the need to take into account remittance flows when designing and implementing post-disaster interventions as well as some policy measures adopted during disasters that occurred in Samoa and in other countries, and which could be replicated in other comparable settings.

This Brief calls for a better understanding of remittances’ role and impacts for both receivers and senders and also greater collaboration between governments, aid agencies and the private sector. Promoting remittances for recovery and remittances is on the agenda for the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. 

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