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Pointers and Key Messages on Human Mobility for the COP29 Negotiations

By The Advisory Group on Climate Change and Human Mobility, The Climate, Migration and Displacement Platform and The Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group
05 / 11 / 2025
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This technical brief sets out pointers and key messages for Parties to advance the integration of human mobility in key agenda items at COP29, in Baku Azerbaijan. The brief is the result of a collaborative effort by civil society and United Nation  partners cooperating under several practitioner groups or networks, led by the Advisory Group on Human Mobility and Climate Change, the Climate, Migration, Displacement Platform (CMDP), and the Loss and Damage and the Loss and Damage and the Challenges of Human Mobility and Displacement Working Group of the Loss and Damage Collaboration.

Pointers and key messages are provided for the following key areas: 

  1. Framing human mobility within the UNFCCC negotiations;
  2. Human mobility and the The New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG);
  3. Human mobility and the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage and other Funding Arrangements;
  4. Human mobility and the Santiago Network for averting, minimising and addressing loss and damage (SNLD);
  5. Human mobility and the  2024 Review of the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage; 
  6. Human mobility and the Global Goal on Adaptation and Operationalisation of the UAE Framework for Global Climate Resilience;
  7. Human mobility and Just Transition including the Impacts of Implementation of Response Measures;
  8. Human mobility Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs); and;
  9. Human Mobility in the Cop29 Cover Decision. 

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