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This brief advocates for a ‘durable solutions’ approach within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to averting, minimising and addressing displacement in the context of the adverse effects of climate change. It builds on the messages in the 2023 publication ‘Loss and Damage and Displacement: Key Messages on the Road to COP 28’, which highlighted both the risks to human rights and well-being associated with displacement and the need to prioritise displacement in the scope of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD). With the Fund subsequently operationalised at COP 28, and the commitment to providing finance for displacement, relocation and migration enshrined in the FRLD’s scope, this new brief calls on the Fund and all stakeholder bodies, expert groups and organisations to support, prioritise and mainstream ‘durable solutions approaches’ in policy and practice.

This advocacy brief was developed by the Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement working group and the Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility. It is jointly published by the Loss and Damage Collaboration (L&DC) and Researching Internal Displacement (RID) where the publication can be found on this page.