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Massoudou

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2021-09-23
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  1. “In addition, we consider the appointment of a special envoy of the Secretary-General on climate and security to be most pertinent, insofar as it will give greater visibility and effectiveness to the consideration of this issue, which no one can ignore. In conclusion, my delegation is in favour of adopting a Council draft resolution on the issue in order to properly acknowledge the security risks linked to climate change as a central element of our peace and security architecture.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  2. “We also call for the systematic consideration of climate-related risks in resolutions on country- and region-specific situations, which could increase the effectiveness of peacebuilding and peacekeeping efforts. In that connection, we encourage the Security Council to rely as much as possible on the advisory role of the Peacebuilding Commission, as well as on the Informal Expert Group co-chaired by the Niger and Ireland. Those frameworks, as well as the data provided to us by research centres, will allow us to gain perspective on national and regional processes, which are tools to better inform the Security Council on the implications of climate change on peace and security.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  3. “At this stage, allow me to make a few suggestions as to how the Council could address the issue. We need to build a holistic, coordinated approach. In the context of United Nations and Security Council efforts, increased investment in efforts at prevention and anticipating effects in fragile States could limit the compounded humanitarian consequences of climate change and armed conflict. In that regard, we call for the strengthening of the Council’s capacity to better understand the impact of climate change on security through a report of the Secretary-General that includes an in-depth analysis of current and future risks, as well as action-oriented recommendations.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  4. “The latter has adopted a climate investment plan for the period 2018 to 2030, with a global cost of approximately $440 billion, which is aimed at contributing to the global effort to mitigate greenhouse-gas emissions and increase the adaptation and resilience capacities of the Sahelian populations. Those efforts, however laudable, will remain in vain and will not produce the leverage effect that is essential to scale up climate action if we do not all move forward together. The lack of consensus on this crucial issue should in no way be an obstacle for the Council when it comes to addressing it. Rather, the lack of consensus should serve as a unique opportunity to hear all the different views that can contribute to our debates and enable us to move forward on this important matter.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  5. “Numerous recent studies have shown that climate change and conflict dynamics create a feedback loop in the region, whereby climate change impacts fuel additional pressures, while conflict undermines communities’ abilities to cope. Faced with that scourge, our States have undertaken various efforts, both at the continental level, with the African Union, and at the regional level, through the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, the Economic Community of West African States and the Climate Commission for the Sahel Region.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  6. “Those risks bring with them undeniable security and humanitarian consequences for our populations and undermine the development efforts our countries are undertaking in a context complicated even further by the pandemic. As we speak, in the Sahel, the crucible of that climatic reality — where agriculture is the mainstay of the economies, accounting on average for more than a third of the gross domestic product, and where more than 80 per cent of the population depends on agricultural activities and natural resources for their livelihoods — climate change has intensified competition for land, fodder and water resources. That has led to the resurgence of community-level conflicts between herders and farmers, thereby hampering peacebuilding and development efforts in the region.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  7. “Ilwad Elman for their briefings, which reflect their firm commitment to addressing the impacts of climate change on peace and security. As we move towards the end of the second consecutive year characterized by the coronavirus disease pandemic, we must not lose sight of the other pandemic we face — one that will be even more devastating in the long term and for which no vaccine is available. I am referring, of course, to climate change. We are already seeing record heatwaves, droughts, severe fires and floods and melting glaciers. The conclusions of the 2021 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change depict a most alarming situation and constitute a call for action. While those risks are new to some, in the Niger and the Sahel region they are our reality.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source

  8. “Mr. Massoudou (Niger) (spoke in French): At the outset, allow me to congratulate Ireland on its assumption of the presidency of the Security Council for the month of September, as well as to commend the way in which it has led the work of this organ of the United Nations. Your country’s commitment, Sir, to holding a debate on the issue of security risks related to climate change in the Council is proof of your conviction that the fragility associated with environmental degradation is an exacerbating factor in conflicts and humanitarian crises. As co-Chair of the Informal Expert Group on Climate and Security alongside Ireland, the Niger shares that conviction and considers the placement of the issue on the Council’s agenda to be timely in more ways than one. I would also like to thank Mr. António Guterres and Ms.”

    2021-09-23 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8864 (2021) · source