IOM chief urges action on growing climate migration

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Published on Nov 13, 2022
(6 Nov 2022)
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Sharm el-Sheikh - 6 November 2022
1. Wide of United Nations booths at UN climate conference, COP27
2. Director General of UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) AntÃ³nio Vitorino talking to colleagues
3. SOUNDBITE (English) AntÃ³nio Vitorino, Director General of IOM:
"We are running short of time to act. In Somalia, you have 1.1 million people forcibly displaced because of the drought. In Pakistan, you have 3 million people displaced because of the floods. There are millions of people all over the world in all regions today that they are already suffering in their daily lives because of the impact of natural disasters and climate change. And it is necessary to prioritize adaptation, mitigation, preparedness and building the resilience in the communities to adapt to a fast changing climate. That's what we will ask from COP27."
4. Mid of Vitorino during interview
5. SOUNDBITE (English) AntÃ³nio Vitorino, Director General of IOM:
"Adaptation and building resilience we need at least the doubling of the current funding that is allocated to adaptation in the envelope of 100 billion per year that has been agreed in Copenhagen."
6. Vitorino during interview
7. SOUNDBITE (English) AntÃ³nio Vitorino, Director General of IOM:
"What we believe is that international community needs to mobilize the expertise, the human resources but also the financial resources to come into support of those who are today already seriously impacted by climate change."
8. Mid of interview
9. SOUNDBITE (English) AntÃ³nio Vitorino, Director General of IOM:
"My message is very clear: investing today in adaptation, mitigation, preparedness, early warning, building resilience is much cheaper than if you let the situation deteriorate and we will have dramatic humanitarian crises in the future that can eat millions and millions of people in the world."
10. Wide of conference attendees inside venue
STORYLINE:
The head of the United Nations migration agency on Sunday urged the international community to mobilize human and financial resources to address growing climate migration.
Speaking on the sidelines of the UN climate conference COP27, AntÃ³nio VitorinoÂ Â said there are millions of people across the world who are already suffering the impact of natural disasters and climate change.
The Director General of the International Organization for Migration said he will ask leaders to invest in adaptation and building resistance in hard hit nations.
"We need at least the doubling of the current funding that is allocated to adaptation," Vitorino said on the first day of the event, hosted in the Egyptian resort town Sharm el-Sheikh.
Each year, natural disasters force an average of 21.5 million people from their homes around the world, according to the U.N..
Scientists predict migration will grow as the planet gets hotter.
Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other climate catastrophes, according to the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published this year.
"We are running short of time to act," Vitorino said.
He added that if leaders did not focus on solutions, then "we will have dramatic humanitarian crises in the future that can eat millions and millions of people in the world."
More than 40,000 participants have been registered for this year's talks, reflecting the sense of urgency as major weather events around the world impact many people and cost billions of dollars in repairs.
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