Draft seminar
outline, version
12, 4th Dec ‘15
Name mentioned here does not mean it is confirmed on her / his participation, if it is not
mentioned otherwise. Name of the organizations mentioned in alphabetical order. A final outline
will be circulated to all concern specially allocating time (minimum 3 minutes) and tentative topics
for distinguished speakers at least three days before of the seminar
Seminar title
Climate Forced Displacements: Rights and Obligations.
Place
Date and time
Reporting time
UNFCCC, CoP Premise. Le Bourge, Paris, Room no 4 Hall 4
5th December 2015, 16.45 to 18.15 hours
5th December 2015, 16.30 (related video will be shown), time for interaction with each others,
network building
Organizers (in
Asia Pacific Movement of Debt and Development (APMDD) Philippines, Asia Pacific Research
alphabetic
Network (APRN) Philippines, Asia Pacific Women on Law and Development (AWLD) Bangkok,
order)
BARCIK-Bangladesh, Bangladesh Climate Change Journalist Forum (BCCJF), Bangladesh Indigenous
People Network for Climate Change and Bio Diversity -BIPNetCCBD, Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon
(BAPA), Beyond Copenhagen Collective, India, Bharatiya Jono Viggan Jatra (BJVJ) India, Campaign
for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL) Bangladesh, Climate Change Development Forum (CCDF)
Bangladesh, Coastal Association for Social Transformation (COAST) Bangladesh, Coastal
Development Partnership (CDP) Bangladesh, Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh
(EquityBD), Global Justice Now UK, Jubilee Debt Campaign UK, Jubilee Sur/Americas Argentina,
LDC Watch Brussels, Pan Africa Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) Kenya, Pairvi, India, South Asian
Alliance for Poverty Eradication (SAAPE) Nepal
Communication Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, reza.coast@gmail.com, +33641573200/+8801711529792,
www.equitybd.net
Jahangir Hossain Masum, masumcdp@yahoo.com,
Alice Baillat, alice.baillat@gmail.com, +33 (0)687375994, at exhibit booth 025A/D in Hall 4
Background
Different study reports indicates that there will be around 2 to 300 millions climate forced
migrants in the whole world, meaning 1 in each 15. In Bangladesh it is alone 30 millions, meaning
1 in each 5. It is already jeopardy social and economic situation in climate vulnerable countries
(CVC) like in Philippines and Bangladesh. If there is no drastic cut in mitigation, temperature may
go up to 6 degree at the end this centuries and climate forced migrants especially from low lying
countries will increase many fold.
Since 2007 UNFCCC Bali conference we have doing campaign on this especially demanding new
UN protocol, organizing public seminars and photography exhibition and post card campaign in all
the UNFCCC CoP (Conference of Parties) premise. In Cancun agreement para 14.f has adopted to
study, discuss on climate forced migrants, but later very little progress has happened in this
regard, e.g., hardly any countries has been demanding separate work program in this UNFCCC
process. Now it is a part of Loss and Damage discourse. Since 2012 with the leadership of
Government of Switzerland, Norway and The Nansen Initiatives, a bottom up global discussion has
been initiated on Disaster and Climate Forced Migrants, a global consultation has been conducted
during October 2015 in Geneva, where internal displacement policy for relocation and
rehabilitation has been emphasized as a part of climate adaption
We do like to continue the discourse as we strongly believe that CVCs alone hardly be able to
solve the problem alone, while coastal regions of these CVCs and some of the small island
countries will disappear. Global community or states should take responsibilities in view of
CBDRRC (common but differentiated responsibilities with respective capacities) and there should
be an initiative of new UN protocol in this regard. Even how much this protocol will work while
there are growing xenophobia in developed countries. It has a demand of new sort of
development education in those countries. There are other dimensions of the issue too, ie
strengthening climate resilience so that there will be little of migration. Moreover the migration
had linked to development, it could be considered as a matter of potentiality for national
development. There are issues of facilitating the migration with dignity too.
Distinguished
Through this public seminar we do like strengthen our mobilization and understanding in this
regard, raise the issue to our global policy leaders and also to enhanced our networks. Please join
Dr Hasan Mahmud, Chairman Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Forest and
speakers
Key note
presentation
Moderator
Environment, Government of Bangladesh, Dr Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmed-PKSF, Dr Atiq Raman –
BCAS/CCDF, Gouri Pradhan – LDC Watch (Confirmed), Janet Redman – IPS USA, Kate KapplinAPWLD, Lidy Nacpil – APMDD (Confirmed), Mithika Miwanda – PACJA, Nick Dearden - Global
Justice Now (Confirmed), Sanjay Vahsist- CANSA (confirmed) , Soumaya Dutta – BJVJ (Confirmed) ,
Dr Sharmind Neelormi – CSRL (Confirmed) , Prof Walter Kaelin – Nansen Initiatives (confirmed) ,
Jorge Tadeo Vargas - Jubileo Sur Americas (confirmed), Lena Brenn -Norwegian Refugee Council
(Confirmed) , Carolina Hernandez-UNOHCHR (Confirmed), Mariam Traore Chazalnoel-IoM Geneva
(confirmed) , Mr Antoine Gerard WHS/OCHA (confirmed), Kate Lappin APWLD / Helen Hakena
PNG (confirmed)
Ziaul Haque Mukta – EquityBD (these will be supplied to all the distinguished speakers at least 12
days before)
Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, EquityBD