2024 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment - Economic…

• High-level Panel: Addressing the adverse impacts of climate change in humanitarian emergencies

This panel will explore how humanitarians are building on momentum following COP28 to reduce and address humanitarian needs more effectively and efficiently, including through anticipatory approaches, early warning early action systems and disaster risk reduction and related financing. The panel will further explore the current disaster landscape and climate-related challenges, including the specific challenges facing women and girls, and discuss key actions and investments that are required to better anticipate, prepare for and respond to the humanitarian impacts of the adverse effects of climate change in support of affected and vulnerable communities and countries. This will include a focus on tackling rising food insecurity and displacement due to climate impacts, and the increasing intersection between
climate, food insecurity, displacement and conflict. Given the scale of the challenge posed by
climate change, the discussion will also identify opportunities and ways for humanitarian actors to continue strengthening partnerships and initiatives with development, climate and disaster risk reduction actors and with regional organizations, national authorities and local communities in managing disaster and climate risks and responding to their impacts and in strengthening resilience to increasingly frequent and devastating climate shocks.

Since 1998, the ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment (HAS) has been an essential platform for discussing the activities and issues related to strengthening the coordination and effectiveness of the humanitarian assistance of the United Nations. The HAS provides a key opportunity for Member States, the United Nations system, development actors, the private sector and other humanitarian partners to discuss current and emerging humanitarian challenges and priority themes and share experiences and lessons learned.