RGA/12/5
Sponsored by Jumana Ali, Dani Morales, Demi Georgakoulias, Chloe Lee of Ravenwood High School
The delegates above represented the Delegation of Kiribati.
This legislation was filed in the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural category
Presented as part of the MUN B 2023 conference
| 1 | To the General Assembly, |
| 2 | Alarmed by predictions that by 2050, Pacific sea levels will have risen up to 42 centimeters, |
| 3 | significantly threatening the low-lying islands of the Pacific, including Kiribati, through natural |
| 4 | disasters such as floods and tsunamis, |
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| 6 | Noting that Kiribati’s geographic location and inherent characteristics as an atoll nation and a less- |
| 7 | developed country had left it very little capacity to cope with natural and man-made disasters, and |
| 8 | ultimately extremely vulnerable to rising sea levels, |
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| 10 | Acknowledging an already existing organization, Kiribati Joint Implementation Plan (KJIP), as well |
| 11 | as its implementation of holistic approaches on climate actions (i.e. across multiple sectors and |
| 12 | with stronger linkages among climate adaptation planning processes at national, sectoral and |
| 13 | island levels) to increase resilience through sustainable climate change adaptation and |
| 14 | disaster risk reduction, |
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| 16 | Highlighting KJIP’s 104 tangible, on-the-ground actions that enhanced Kiribati’s access to financial |
| 17 | and technical support, which ultimately accelerated the implementation of actions on climate |
| 18 | adaptation and disaster risk reduction, |
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| 20 | Noting KJIP’s efficacy in advocating and operationalizing an integrated approach to include climate |
| 21 | change and disaster risks in national and community development planning, |
| 22 | implementation, monitoring, and evaluations, |
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| 24 | Underscoring KJIP’s relevant regional and international linkage as a party to the United Nations |
| 25 | Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), United Nations Development Plan (UNDP), |
| 26 | and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Secretariat (UNISDR), |
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| 28 | Emphasizing the success of KJIP since its establishment in 2012 in its repeated renewals to 2028, |
| 29 | as well as in its global support by fellow UN member countries, |
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| 31 | Emphasizing the similar geographic, socioeconomic, and infrastructural vulnerabilities of fellow |
| 32 | states in Oceania to the rising of sea levels, |
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| 34 | The Delegation of Kiribati does hereby: |
| 35 | Call for the establishment of a 5 year research initiative led by the UNFCCC, UNDP, and UNISDR to |
| 36 | collaborate with the KJIP and outline a plan for other states in Oceania impacted by rising sea |
| 37 | levels, |
| 38 | Reiterates that access to healthcare is a universal human right that must be available to all people |
| 39 | despite socioeconomic status, |
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| 41 | Accepts that there are many different governmental health care systems and programs to increase |
| 42 | access to health care, |
| 43 | |
| 44 | Proclaims that the best way to increase access to health care is a multi-payer system with |
| 45 | universal coverage, |
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| 47 | Urges the state parties to readjust their health care systems to public funded systems that also |
| 48 | have private issuers in order to make sure that all citizens have basic access to health care. |
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