SUMMARY REPORT FROM COP19 DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNITY‐BASED RELOCATION: SUPPORTING ADAPTATION, PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS

The report details discussions from a COP19 workshop on climate-induced relocation, highlighting the extreme financial costs for communities in Alaska and the Pacific, the need for national relocation policies, and the tension between voluntary adaptation and forced loss and damage. It emphasizes the importance of community-led decision-making to protect cultural identity and calls for better integration of relocation into UNFCCC frameworks like NAPAs and the Loss and Damage mechanism.

• The financial burden of community relocation is prohibitively high for most affected populations and their governments, with one estimate for Kivalina, Alaska, reaching $400 million. This underscores the necessity for developed countries to fulfill their commitment to mobilize $100 billion in annual climate finance by 2020.
• There are three primary entry points for addressing relocation within the UNFCCC process: the National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) process, the Adaptation Framework (Cancun Agreements), and the Loss and Damage mechanism (Decision 3/CP 18). While the Solomon Islands, Kiribati, and Tuvalu have included relocation in their NAPAs, discussions on Loss and Damage have focused more on extreme weather than slow-onset events.

APA

Center for International Environmental Law (n.d.). SUMMARY REPORT FROM COP19 DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNITY‐BASED RELOCATION: SUPPORTING ADAPTATION, PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COP19_CB_Relocation_7Feb2014.pdf

Chicago

Center for International Environmental Law. SUMMARY REPORT FROM COP19 DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNITY‐BASED RELOCATION: SUPPORTING ADAPTATION, PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS. n.d. https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COP19_CB_Relocation_7Feb2014.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{centerforinternationalenvironmentallawndsummary, author = {{Center for International Environmental Law}}, title = {{SUMMARY REPORT FROM COP19 DIALOGUE ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNITY‐BASED RELOCATION: SUPPORTING ADAPTATION, PROTECTING HUMAN RIGHTS}}, institution = {Center for International Environmental Law}, url = {https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/COP19_CB_Relocation_7Feb2014.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }