Climate Vulnerable Forum Action

The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) has since its inception in 2009 called for and led the drive to successfully enshrine 1.5oC as the global goal at the heart of the Paris Agreement, and for ambitious action by all nations towards its achievement.

Climate change disproportionately affects a wide number of nations and communities around the world. Given the realities faced at the climate frontlines, the CVF’s Vision, champions for enhanced efforts to adapt to climate shocks, to achieve maximal resilience for people, indigenous groups, livelihoods, infrastructure, cultures and ecosystems and to take maximum advantage of the benefits of climate action.

The CVF is committed to see the full and effective implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM), in all areas dealing with climate change, resilience, disasters due to natural hazards and environmental degradation, to protect the environment while promoting development, ending poverty and leaving no one behind.

At the nexus of climate crises and human mobility, the objectives of the CVF are: to better understand climate-related vulnerability through a human mobility lens; to support relevant responses in countries most vulnerable to climate change; to organize and support activities that aim to reduce future risks of displacement in order to limit the factors that compel people to move; and to support initiatives led by migrants and diasporas that contribute to climate action.

CVF is committed to support the work of the United Nations Network on Migration (UNNM) Thematic Priority 4, with a focus on developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, with a focus on integrating human mobility into the Climate Prosperity Plans (CPP) and in the Climate Vulnerability Monitor (CVM) and enhancing the contributions of migrants and diasporas to climate action, all framed under the Migrants4Climate (M4C) Initiative.