Date: Thursday, 11 June 2026
Time: 10:30–11:45 (CEST)
Location: Bonn room
Organizers: International Organization for Migration (IOM), Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) (Norwegian Refugee Council), Government of Panama, United Nations Environment Programme Copenhagen Climate Centre (UNEP-UNEP CCC), United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
About the event
Human mobility, including displacement and planned relocation, can be both a form and a consequence of loss and damage, with significant implications for social cohesion, cultural continuity, human rights, and overall well-being. The concept note notes that, although human mobility is recognized as an important element of loss and damage responses, major gaps remain in how its economic and non-economic dimensions are captured, assessed, and understood.
This side event will bring together representatives from governments, United Nations entities and civil society organizations to discuss insights, tools, and practices for assessing losses and damages associated with human mobility. It will draw on case studies and existing tools and initiatives to explore how economic and non-economic losses and damages can be better monitored, assessed, and addressed.
The discussion is expected to identify opportunities to strengthen the structural integration of human mobility into national loss and damage systems and into responses under the Santiago Network for Loss and Damage and the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage.
