

1.2
Protect Rights
Governments must defend people’s ‘right to stay’ and support relocation in dignity.


1.2
Protect Rights
Governments must defend people’s ‘right to stay’ and support relocation in dignity.


1.2
Protect Rights
Governments must defend people’s ‘right to stay’ and support relocation in dignity.
Climate impacts are already making lives harder and contribute to undermining basic rights, including people’s “right to stay” in the places they call home.
Climate impacts are already making lives harder and contribute to undermining basic rights, including people’s “right to stay” in the places they call home.
Climate impacts are already making lives harder and contribute to undermining basic rights, including people’s “right to stay” in the places they call home.
However, to prevent immobility from becoming a trap, governments have a duty to help communities take informed action. Decisions to stay or move should be empowered with science, agency, rights, and choice.
However, to prevent immobility from becoming a trap, governments have a duty to help communities take informed action. Decisions to stay or move should be empowered with science, agency, rights, and choice.
However, to prevent immobility from becoming a trap, governments have a duty to help communities take informed action. Decisions to stay or move should be empowered with science, agency, rights, and choice.
When people move out of desperation, they are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The presence of organized crime networks in the region engaged in kidnappings, extortion and human trafficking exacerbates the risk for migrants and their families. The urgency to protect people on the move — and to create legal pathways for migration — increases alongside global temperatures and regional vulnerability to the changing climate.
There should be clear procedures and safeguards in place, when communities decide to pursue planned relocation. Within some countries, there is no higher ground to retreat to. Governments must develop policies and agreements that provide for safe and regular climate mobility pathways across borders. Trailblazing legal and policy initiatives by individual states and regional bodies should be encouraged, shared and emulated.
When people move out of desperation, they are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The presence of organized crime networks in the region engaged in kidnappings, extortion and human trafficking exacerbates the risk for migrants and their families. The urgency to protect people on the move — and to create legal pathways for migration — increases alongside global temperatures and regional vulnerability to the changing climate.
There should be clear procedures and safeguards in place, when communities decide to pursue planned relocation. Within some countries, there is no higher ground to retreat to. Governments must develop policies and agreements that provide for safe and regular climate mobility pathways across borders. Trailblazing legal and policy initiatives by individual states and regional bodies should be encouraged, shared and emulated.
When people move out of desperation, they are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. The presence of organized crime networks in the region engaged in kidnappings, extortion and human trafficking exacerbates the risk for migrants and their families. The urgency to protect people on the move — and to create legal pathways for migration — increases alongside global temperatures and regional vulnerability to the changing climate.
There should be clear procedures and safeguards in place, when communities decide to pursue planned relocation. Within some countries, there is no higher ground to retreat to. Governments must develop policies and agreements that provide for safe and regular climate mobility pathways across borders. Trailblazing legal and policy initiatives by individual states and regional bodies should be encouraged, shared and emulated.