2/13/2020

Country – Sri Lanka

Committee – UNEA
Agenda- Discussing Solutions to Climate-Induced Migration
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As the planet’s temperatures continue to rise with increasing risk of flooding, famines and other
disasters, human populations are bound to be forcibly displaced. We are looking at a great risk
of IDPs and various vulnerable groups around the world while having no Recognition in
International Law and policy. World Bank estimated that Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia
and Latin America will generate 143 million climate migrants by 2050.Hence this is a Topics
that needs serious actions from international community.
In the past Decade, This has been accepted as a major issue around the world due to increasing
political awareness and severity of the effects on people. We have Paris climate change accord,

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Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Global Compact for Migration that contains
many references to environmental migration including a whole section on measures to address
environmental and climate challenges and lays out a comprehensive vision on how states can
handle - now and in the future – the impacts of climate change, disasters and environmental
degradation on international migration. Today, in accordance with Compact the states try to
minimize the adverse drivers and structural factors that compel people to leave their country of
origin, in particular the "natural disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and
environmental degradation.
Sri Lanka was ranked second on the 2017 Global Climate Risk Index for countries most
affected by the climate crisis. Sri Lanka locally produces 85 percent of its food, and so either
type of climate impact carries with it the potential to devastate the country’s food and
agricultural sector and Hamper the Food Security of its People. As of the Recent ,From 2016
to 2017, a severe drought—the worst drought in 40 years— devastated 45 percent of the paddy
crop, the country’s main staple food, and caused 900,000 people to be food insecure and More
such Events are Bound to happen if We don’t take Concrete Measures.
Sri Lanka as a Member of International Community and as a Witness of serious Climate
Change impact and climate induced migration tries to Instill a policy for addressing and solving
the international crisis that we are facing. Extreme weather events such as high intensity rainfall
followed by flash floods and landslides, and extended dry periods resulting in water scarcity
are now becoming common occurrences in Sri Lanka.
 Sri Lanka will actively involve in the global efforts to minimize the greenhouse gas emissions
within the framework of sustainable development and principles enshrined in the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol (KP).
W Sri Lanka Vows to Recognize and address the vulnerability to adverse impacts of climate
change in the socioeconomic and environmental sectors in the national, provincial, district and
local level development plans and programs in relation to both natural and built environment,
Disaster management, Food Security for the Affected and Vulnerable groups and take action
to safeguard Public Health.
We Promise and Look ahead to Institutional Coordination, Legal and Regulatory Framework,
R&D, Transfer of Technology, Resource Mobilization and We desire a strong resilience,
Cooperation and Concrete Decisions from International Leaders and Community to Solve this
International Crisis and Develop mechanisms to establish, enhance, and improve skilled human
resources throughout the country.
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Sources:
1. http://www.climatechange.lk/Documents/Climate_Change_Policy/Climate_Change_Policy_E
nglish.pdf : National Climate Change Policy of Sri Lanka.
2. Justin Ginnetti and Chris Lavell, The Risk of Disaster-Induced Displacement in South Asia,
(Geneva: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2015), 43, accessed June 29, 2019,
http://www.internal-displacement.org/sites/default/files/publications/
3. https://belonging.berkeley.edu/climaterefugees/srilanka#footnote351_6y9jh42 Climate
Refugees: Sri Lanka
4. Migration and Climate Crisis : UN’s Search For Solution
https://news.un.org/en/story/2019/07/1043551