The development of measures to prevent resources from being made available to certain individuals, groups or Governments has accelerated in recent years, notably in the area of counterterrorism.1 These efforts have translated into increased scrutiny on humanitarian organizations and their operations out of concern that humanitarian activities could – voluntarily or not – benefit targeted Governments, groups or individuals.
For more than twenty years, the United Nations Security Council, regional organizations and Member States have adopted measures to prevent resources from being made available to groups considered ‘terrorist’, or from contributing to the pursuit of terrorist purposes.
The objective of this common narrative is to facilitate consistent messaging among IASC members during upcoming climate events in 2021. To this end, the common narrative has served as basis for the video submitted by 12 IASC organizations to the Climate Adaptation Summit as a prerecorded side event, which was shared widely via social media by the humanitarian and wider climate community in early 2021.
