Concordat Delegates Arrive for a Migration Docket Nobody Wants to Chair

GENEVA — The delegates are checking into the same hotels they filled in July, and the corridors outside the Global Concordat Council chamber have the wary quiet of people who know the easy speeches are behind them. On the docket: a fresh accounting of the climate-migration corridors, timed to a Hearth Relief International bulletin that agency officials say will land within days. Secretary-General Ingrid Halvorsen has asked members to arrive with "corridor commitments, not corridor complaints." Few have. A West African bloc wants transit funding tied to resettlement quotas; two receiving states want the quotas first. "Everyone agrees the roads are full," said one Passage Trust liaison working the delegate lounges. "Nobody agrees whose budget the fullness belongs to." Halvorsen, who chaired the summer's fraught water session, has scheduled no vote this week — only hearings. In a body that governs by exhaustion, she is letting the arithmetic do the arguing before she asks anyone to sign.