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2009-10-05
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  1. “As appropriate, climate risks should be consistently incorporated into the mandates of all relevant United Nations peacekeeping and special political missions. An increasing number of countries and communities have been experiencing insecurity and instability as a result of climate change. We have urged the Council and its members to respond to the requests made by those countries to take action. We stand ready to support all efforts to enhance comprehensive risk assessment, capacity-building and operational responses.”

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  2. “The Council needs the right tools to enable the United Nations to do its part in preventing and resolving conflicts that are at least in part driven by the effects of climate change. We are calling for concrete, tangible actions to be considered — that is nothing new. We call on the Secretary-General to appoint a special representative for climate and peace and security who could strengthen coordination between the relevant United Nations entities to improve the Organization’s ability to address climate-related security risks. We call for regular reporting by the Secretary-General on the peace and security implications of the adverse effects of climate change. Furthermore, we call for the use of climate-related early-warning systems that also incorporate conflict prevention, mediation and peacebuilding.”

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  3. “We are encouraged by the fact that discussions took place at the initiative of the countries affected. The Security Council would greatly benefit from considering the findings of those and future PBC meetings on the issue, which the Council could receive through the Commission’s written advice. The Security Council has a crucial role to play, given its primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security. We welcome the progress made in that regard, including the growing recognition of the effects of climate change when considering mandates for peacekeeping and special political missions. We welcome the initiative by the United Arab Emirates, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerland towards developing a joint pledge to continuously address climate and security issues in the Council. But more needs to be done.”

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  4. “To be successful in Dubai later this year, we need to take bold measures to limit global warming and raise our ambitions under the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. We need to stay below 1.5°C Moreover, we can no longer prevent all the negative impacts of climate change, especially in fragile contexts, such as in small island developing States. We also have to invest in adaptation measures to build resilience in times of climate change and address loss and damage. The United Nations system must address that challenge comprehensively. Important work is happening in the Climate Security Mechanism. The Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) is looking at specific contexts in which climate change has a direct impact on security and stability, such as in the Pacific Islands.”

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  5. “I thank the presidency of the United Arab Emirates for convening today’s debate on this important subject. Micronesia aligns itself with the statements delivered by the representatives of Germany, on behalf of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security, Papua New Guinea, on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum, and the Marshall Islands, on behalf of the Pacific small island developing States. Climate change is the defining challenge of our time. It threatens our livelihoods, ecosystems, sustainable development, prosperity and stability, thereby posing a serious challenge to peace and security. As we speak, preparations for the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are ongoing in Bonn.”

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  6. “Such a special representative could, among other things, strengthen the ability of the United Nations to understand and respond sensitively to all facets of the challenge of climate-change-related sea level rise, including the implications of such sea level rise for statehood and other matters of international law.”

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  7. “Along the same lines, my delegation calls on the members of the Security Council and the General Assembly to support the initiative started by Vanuatu for the General Assembly to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change. As today’s open debate indicates, sea level rise, like other adverse effects of climate change, raises major questions under international law that, in our view, an advisory opinion can helpfully address. In conclusion, my delegation echoes others in calling for the appointment of a special representative for climate and security.”

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  8. “Additionally, to the extent that the forced extinguishing of their statehood disrupts a people’s access to economic, humanitarian and other benefits, including rights and entitlements flowing from maritime zones, it is fundamentally contrary to the achievement of international cooperation in addressing economic, humanitarian and other international problems. In the light of the foregoing, the Security Council must make clear, in accordance with its duties and the principles and purposes of the United Nations, that the loss of land territory due to climate-change-related sea level rise does not automatically translate to a loss of statehood enjoyed by the people of that territory.”

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  9. “It would be deeply disruptive to the peace and security of a people and violates the principles and purposes of the United Nations that I identified earlier if the status of people as a State is deemed by the international community to be extinguished by a phenomenon for which such people have minimal responsibility, if any. Such people will not have engaged in any act of self-determination that endorses the loss of statehood and forcing them to accept that loss is fundamentally contrary to the development of friendly relations among nations.”

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  10. “As others have noted today, sea level rise poses a particularly acute threat to the overall peace and security of small island developing States like my own, Micronesia, given our relatively small land masses, populations and economies, our geographical remoteness and our deep cultural ties to, and reliance on, our island homes. Distressingly, and on a related note, there is a school of thought in international law and discourse that once sea level rise inundates the land territory of a State, then that State automatically ceases to exist and no longer enjoys statehood in the international community. In my delegation’s view, that school of thought must be rejected by the Security Council, and we call on the Security Council to do so.”

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  11. “As stated in the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council has the primary responsibility, on behalf of the members of the General Assembly, to maintain international peace and security. The discharge of that responsibility must, among other things, be in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations. Two of those purposes are the development of friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples and the achievement of international cooperation in solving international problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character. In that regard, climate-change-related sea level rise presents a challenge of which the Security Council must be seized.”

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  12. “Micronesia is honoured to address the Security Council on this important subject. I also want to acknowledge the contributions of a fellow Pacific islander, Ms. Coral Pasisi, to this discussion today. At the outset, my delegation associates itself with the statements to be delivered later today by the representatives of Samoa on behalf of the Alliance of Small Island States, Tonga on behalf of the Pacific Islands Forum, Palau on behalf of the Pacific small island developing States and Nauru on behalf of the Group of Friends on Climate and Security. My delegation congratulates Malta on assuming the presidency of the Security Council and organizing the open debate today.”

    2023-02-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9260Resumption1 (2023) · source

  13. “In addition, we reiterate our call for climate change and security to be an annual item on the United Nations agenda and for a focal point to be established within the Organization to monitor and respond to the growing security implications of climate change. If the United Nations responds to the threat of climate change, it has the potential to truly prevent conflict and thereby reduce violence against women. The Pacific small island developing States confirm their commitment to the full implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), and with the support of all Member States, we are hopeful of further advancement as we move towards the resolution's tenth anniversary.”

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  14. “These effects of climate change create a severe risk of increased violent conflict in many parts of the world, and along with it the consequent impact on women and girls, both during and after conflict. We consider that climate change severely jeopardizes implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). Our understanding of the directions taken by the Secretary-General in his forthcoming report on the possible security implications of climate change is that he emphasizes the need to focus on ways to prevent such security issues, and we fully support that approach. By adequately responding to the climate crisis, the international community could prevent likely conflict situations triggered by climate change, thus protecting the rights of women and children. This is an opportunity that we must seize.”

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  15. “We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Governments of Finland and Liberia for organizing the successful High- Level Event on peace and security through women's leadership held in New York last month. Climate change has adverse effects on the distribution and quality of natural resources such as fresh water, arable land, coastal territory and marine resources. Such changes can increase competition for available resources, weaken Government institutions and lead to internal and international migration. Furthermore, such adverse effects can create obstacles that substantially interfere with the ability of nations to maintain territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence.”

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  16. “The Pacific small island developing States raised the issue of the link between climate change and security last year at the open debate on women and peace and security convened by the Security Council under the presidency of the People's Republic of China. Since then, we have seen the unanimous adoption of General Assembly resolution 63/281 relating to the possible security implications of climate change. This was the first time that the international community recognized an explicit connection between climate change and international peace and security. Pursuant to paragraph 2 of the resolution, the Secretary-General will prepare a report on this matter, and we thank him sincerely for his work on this important issue.”

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  17. “Also, in order to provide a more coordinated approach to the work on women and peace and security, we support the appointment by the Secretary-General of a special representative for this area. In discussing the needs of women and girls in post-conflict situations under the general topic of implementing resolution 1325 (2000), it is critical to consider prevention of conflict situations, particularly in relation to the security implications of climate change. Unabated climate change risks increased violent conflict in many parts of the world, with its consequent impact on women and girls, potentially beyond the capacity of the international community to adequately respond.”

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  18. “In overcoming the obstacles to the implementation of resolution 1325 (2000), the Pacific small island developing States strongly support the need identified in the Secretary-General's report to establish effective monitoring and accountability mechanisms for implementation at the global, regional and national levels and for the Security Council to establish these mechanisms as a matter of urgency. Without such mechanisms we consider it difficult to make further substantive progress. This should be part of an overall strengthened effort, with increased funding, on the part of the Security Council, as well as all United Nations bodies and Member States, to implement resolution 1325 (2000).”

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  19. “Awareness of the issue of women and peace and security and the capacity to address that issue on the ground are of course critical to successful implementation, and we encourage the focus on this matter. However, as the Secretary-General's report notes and as the distinguished speakers before me have also remarked today, much work remains to be done to achieve implementation of resolution 1325 (2000). We note with concern that significant progress is still needed to ensure the equal and substantive participation of women at all levels in peace and security decision-making, particularly in negotiations in post-conflict situations. And we are deeply concerned that peace agreement negotiations and planning for disarmament, demobilization and reintegration continue to take place with little consideration of resolution 1325 (2000).”

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  20. “I have the honour to speak on behalf of the Pacific small island developing States represented at the United Nations, namely, Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Tonga, Vanuatu and my own country, the Federated States of Micronesia. I wish to start by thanking the Viet Nam presidency of the Security Council for convening this important event. We acknowledge and welcome the progress that has been made in implementing resolution 1325 (2000) as outlined in the Secretary-General's report on women and peace and security (S/2009/465). In particular, we note that there has been progress in developing the capacity of both Member States and United Nations bodies to implement the resolution.”

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