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2016-12-20
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2023-06-13
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  1. “Success will require transformative change in our institutions, including humanitarian, development, peacebuilding, defence and security commitments. It will require considerable investments, focused leadership and, finally, true dedication to cooperative action. I hope that this discussion pushes us all to adopt this common outlook and join the fight against this unprecedented challenge.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  2. “At least 50 per cent of the commitment will support Pacific island countries, and at least 50 per cent will target adaptation. New Zealand’s climate financing initiatives will enhance resilience and adaptation to the impacts of climate change, promote ambitious mitigation action and improve institutional capability for evidence-based decision-making. In addition, since 2018, New Zealand’s defence policy has formally recognized the importance of climate change as one of the two most significant long-term trends affecting New Zealand’s security. Faced with the common threat to humankind that climate change presents, we must strengthen cooperation as never before if we are to keep our populations safe and secure.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  3. “Australia is committed to strengthening its engagement with Indo-Pacific countries to promote climate change cooperation, security, good governance, disaster management, health and resiliency. For example, the Australia Pacific Climate Partnership supports Australian aid investments across the Pacific to be climate- and disaster-risk-informed, and in partnership with UN-Women, the Women’s Resilience to Disasters programme supports women’s leadership in climate and disaster-reduction efforts. New Zealand is committed to supporting the Pacific in building resilience and improving security in the face of climate change. New Zealand’s International Climate Finance Strategy — Tuia te Waka a Kiwa — guides the delivery of New Zealand’s $1.3 billion international climate financing commitment for 2022 to 2025.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  4. “That is why Canada, along with fellow NATO allies, will be establishing a new Climate Change and Security Centre of Excellence in Montreal in 2023 to better understand and address the security challenges associated with climate change. Canada, and 11 other founding NATO nations of the Centre of Excellence, approach the launch of the new Centre as a unique and innovative opportunity for NATO and its allies to help break down the silos on climate action across the international peace and security-development- humanitarian nexus. We strongly believe that the Centre will provide a new platform for the improved coordination of efforts across that triple nexus, aimed at better addressing climate vulnerability and increasing resilienceinthecountriesmostaffectedbyclimatechange.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  5. “The United Nations also needs to measure and assess how various forms of assistance and intervention, such as supporting adaptation and resilience, affect security outcomes. We should exchange best practices and policy interventions through multilateral platforms such as the Climate Security Mechanism, the Peacebuilding Fund and the Climate for Peace Initiative, spearheaded by Germany and the Group of Seven. Building understanding, sharing such lessons learned and adjusting our actions accordingly should be a continual process, one that will help us to ensure that the right preventive measures are taken today for better peace and security outcomes tomorrow.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  6. “To respond to the evolving challenges created by climate change, we collectively need to better assess and understand its security implications, including how it affects fragile and conflict-affected States and sustainable peacekeeping and its specific impacts on women, young people and indigenous persons. Valuable lessons have been recorded already in some United Nations peace operations, but those are valuable only if we can share them. Similarly, successes in the areas of women and peace and security and youth and peace and security may have to be adapted to combat specific climate-change effects. The Council should keep pushing to improve the integration of climate risks into peacekeeping mandates and practices.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  7. “No nation in the world is immune to the consequences of climate change. Climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and increasing in intensity over time. Those and other indirect impacts will affect Member States’ security interests in many ways, some of which we do not yet fully understand. We do recognize, however, that climate change is a threat multiplier, aggravating pre-existing security risks. Rising sea levels, polar warming and increasingly unpredictable weather cannot be separated from their security implications. We have seen that in the Sahel, for example, where the additional stresses on resources exacerbate existing tensions and conflicts.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  8. “I am honoured to address the Security Council on behalf of Australia, Canada and New Zealand on the serious matter of climate change and its current and projected impacts on global peace and security. On behalf of our three Governments, I would like to take this opportunity to reiterate our commitment to constructive and collaborative engagement with the United Arab Emirates in its role as President of the twenty-eighth Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28). We share a firm commitment to multilateral engagement and the rules-based international order, and we really look forward to continuing to work with the United Arab Emirates to ensure a successful outcome at COP28. Climate change will bring unprecedented challenges to our security as nations, communities and individuals.”

    2023-06-13 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9345 (2023) · source

  9. “Ameena Saeed Hasan and Nadia, which connects the rhetoric of this Chamber to the reality on the ground. However, we are not just at this meeting to describe the world, we are here to change it. That is going to involve some very difficult conversations within our own bureaucracies and agencies on reform - reform that is needed because this relates to our deepest moral intuitions and our deepest moral obligations.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  10. “We are focusing, as Nadia said, on the issue of accountability in Iraq and with the Iraqi Government. Our Prime Minister has set up a task force on modern- day slavery, whose focus is above all on practical learning, on coordination and on implementation. In conclusion, this meeting today is in many ways and optimistic moment. It is exactly the kind of thing that the Council should be focused on - because of its transnational nature and the non-State actors involved. We owe huge thanks both to the Spanish leadership and the multilateral Organization we exist within and for the way that is being connected with the analytical rigor, which is being provided by the officials and by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, and also the way in which that connects to the human testimony from Ms.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  11. “Therefore, we have been very clear on the challenges around predeployment training, readiness standards, needs assessments and technical capacity. But the next stage needs to be to really understand our agencies - to really understand what reform will mean within UNODC, the International Labour Organization, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration - and the ways in which that connects to what civil society is doing and to what officials in the countries concerned are doing. It is very easy to sit around a table like this and talk in the abstract about coordination, but this is fundamentally about resources, institutional culture and about training in the broader sense. Within the United Kingdom, we are focusing on two things.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  12. “However, we must also consider the ways in which this can be quite specific, both in the nature of the violence but also in the context in which it operates, whether it is in Mosul, in Nigeria or with Boko Haram or with Da'esh. On implementation, I would like to pay tribute to the Spanish Government, particularly for two elements, the focus in paragraph 2 (d) on victim identification and the focus in paragraphs 19 and 20 on training, in particular that of peacekeepers and humanitarian workers. At the heart of our response there needs to be not just an understanding of what we ought to do, but what we can do, in particular an understanding of our own bureaucracies and the impediments and problems in those bureaucracies.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  13. “However, today we are really at this meeting to focus on practical action, so I just want to take a little time to make three brief observations on practical action: the first is about our approach, the second is about implementation and the third is about bureaucracy. Humility needs to be fundamental to our approach. We must take into account how difficult it is to operate in a conflict environment; how difficult it is to access; to provide protection; how difficult it is to protect and to prosecute; how honest we have to be about the gaps in our knowledge; how much we need to learn from what the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) does in other areas - in counter narcotics, illegal wildlife trade and terrorism.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  14. “Personally, having been in Iraq in 2014 immediately after the situation in Sinjar and having seen directly Yazidi families struggling in those immediate first few days with the death of family members who had been kidnapped and removed from them, I could not believe, as someone who had been working in Iraq since 2013, the depth of that horror. Indeed, on my trip to Iraq just two and a half weeks ago I saw how permanent the scars of what the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham has done within refugee camps - the damage it has done to communities, to countries and, above all, to a civilization.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  15. “Zainab Bangura in particular, and the Spanish Government in drafting the resolution, has brought to our analysis this problem, by which I mean specifically the ways in which, in paragraphs 8 and 9, we focused on the mechanics of human trafficking in conflict - on the ways in which it is used for recruitment, for financing, for destroying communities, for displacing communities, for gathering intelligence, for advancing ideology; the ways in which this violence can be perpetrated through rape, through sexual slavery, through forced prostitution and pregnancy. This detailed, rigorous and analytical description does not minimize or distract from, in fact it amplifies, the horror of what we are witnessing.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source

  16. “Allow me to begin by putting on record our deep condolences to the family of the Russian Ambassador for the terrible tragedy in Turkey. The testimony that we heard from Ms. Nadia Murad Basee Taha has really brought home to us, through the specificity of her experience, the horror of what she experienced: her six brothers killed, the stories of what happened to Catherine or indeed to her nephew, Malik. The story that she has shared with us is not simply a story of violence, but in everything that she said she underscored the way in which these are forms of violence, of coercion, of slavery and, in their systematic and deliberate nature, forms of war. I would also like to pay tribute to the Spanish delegation for bringing resolution 2331 (2016) forward, and to the analytical clarity with which Ms.”

    2016-12-20 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.7847 (2016) · source