Planned Relocation News Today

By Chisom Adindu The Federal Government few days ago ordered the relocation of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) headquarters from Abuja back to Lagos. The directive by the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace, Mr. Festus Keyamo, was contained in a memo dated January 15, 2024, and addressed to the Managing Director of FAAN,

Loss and Damage is not an ab­stract concept for us; it is a lived reality and an existen­tial threat for our people....

United Nations University and the Munich Re Foundation in collaboration with the UN Climate Secretariat and IOM are convening the 2023 Climate Academy to bring together a diverse set of speakers

ANU Disasters Research Unit seeks new ways to deal with fires, floods, cyclones, earthquakes. "We can do it."

The 52-page report, “‘The Sea is Eating the Land Below Our Homes’: Indigenous Community Facing Lack of Space and Rising Seas Plans Relocation,” documents both why the Gardi Sugdub community decided to relocate and how government delays and incomplete support for relocation have stalled the move and left the community in limbo. Human Rights Watch found that while some aspects of Panamanian government and Inter-American Development Bank support for the community have been exemplary, urgent...

The Panamanian government has national and international obligations to protect people from reasonably foreseeable risks to rights, including due to sea level rise and other climate change impacts. But planned relocation carries its own risks, including threats to people’s rights, and requires policies grounded in dignity and other human rights principles: a planned relocation must at minimum restore, or ideally improve, the standard of living of relocating people and their host communities. I...

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for External Trade, Manoa Kamikamica says the relocation of Fijian villages and settlement is not something the Government

Organizations seek to give guidance to governments on planned relocation