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Mauricio Montalvo Samaniego

lines on the record: 5
first: 2021-09-30
most recent: 2021-09-30
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“Should Ecuador be elected as a non-permanent member of the Security Council for the period 2023-2024, we will continue to support this agenda and efforts aimed at deepening the analysis of the linkages between climate and security.”
2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source
“These discussions in the Security Council allow for a complementary but valuable approach to climate- and-security linkages. In addition to promoting complementarity and synergies within the United Nations, this approach contributes to national conflict-prevention and peacebuilding efforts. The conflict-prevention approach promoted by the Secretary- General and the outcome of the 2020 United Nations peacebuilding architecture review both call for joint efforts by the Security Council and the United Nations as a whole to include the issue of climate in strategies to strengthen sustainable peace. Finally, we call for providing peacekeeping operations with technical capabilities and mandates to assess climate-related security risks, in accordance with their specific contexts.”
2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source
“With socioeconomic deterioration and marginalization, the conditions for the spread of violent extremism and organized crime are amplified. The density and severity of catastrophes resulting from climate change add an additional source of security risk. For that reason, Ecuador promotes prevention and capacity-building as essential components of disaster-risk reduction, in accordance with the Sendai Framework, together with climate-related early-warning mechanisms. Adequate financial resources, capacity-building and technology transfer for developing countries are key. We recognize that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the primary intergovernmental forum with the expertise and capacities necessary for negotiating the global response to climate change.”
2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source
“This fact is all the more worrisome, given the risk that global warming of 1.5°C may become irreversible. Desertification and drought, the loss of biodiversity and the rise in sea level generate such socioeconomic problems as food insecurity, problems in health systems, unemployment and lack of livelihoods, inter alia. Similarly, the impact on ecosystems and biodiversity increases the transmission of infectious and zoonotic diseases. This situation is exacerbated by the illicit trade in wildlife. Ecuador also recognizes the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of climate change. The loss of millions of lives, population displacement and the weakening of the social fabric have a disproportionate impact on women, girls and the most vulnerable groups.”
2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source
“I would first like to highlight Ireland’s work as President of the Security Council during this month of September, as well as its substantive contributions as a non-permanent member of the Council since 1 January 2021. I am also grateful for its convening of today’s open debate on climate and security as part of the peacekeeping agenda. As early as 17 years ago, the report of the High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, established by then-Secretary-General Kofi Annan, noted that infectious diseases, environmental degradation and war are mutually reinforcing. Over the past two decades, the international community has repeatedly found that the adverse effects of climate change are undermining the ability of all countries to achieve sustainable development.”
2021-09-30 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/2021/815 (2021) · source