Beat the Heat: Connecting Global and Local to Scale-up Action for Heatwave Resilience

Nov 20, 2024

Host:

UNDP at COP29’s IOM Climate Change and Human Mobility Pavilion Programme

Location:

Baku, Azerbaijan

In line with the 2023 Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which states that “increasing adaptive capacity minimizes risk associated with involuntary migration and immobility and improves the degree of choice under which migration decisions are made”,  IOM works on human mobility in the context of climate change through policy and programmatic action at international, regional, national and local levels and towards the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.