Balance economic and environmental drivers of displacement and migration when talking about the initial challenge and in developing solutions.

There must be caution so as not to allow higher-level policy directions to stifle or kill local policy innovation.

Wealthy, northern-countries should re-evaluate trade or economic policies that can drive migration and displacement in the first place (e..g, structural re-adjustment policies in Africa).

Over-consumption needs to be acknowledged as the driver of climate change and other environmental disruptions (including economic dislocations), and that replicating that over-consumption if and where people are displaced by climate change will be ultimately self-defeating.

Cities and their surrounding environs must be analysed holistically to understand the impacts of growing populations

Resources must be apportioned to municipalities and actors in line with their needs and there can be no singular approach to disbursing resources; models like Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) must be thought of as tools to be selectively applied, not catch-all solutions.

This issue requires framing that includes an Environmental Justice lens, as defined by the EPA:

“[T]he fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, ethnicity, income, national origin, or educational level with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies. Fair treatment means that no population, due to policy or economic disempowerment, is forced to bear a disproportionate burden of the negative human health or environmental impacts of pollution or other environmental consequences resulting from industrial, municipal, and commercial operations or the execution of federal, state, local, and tribal programs and policies."