38 Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change PART B Global Recommendations on Nationality and Statelessness in the Context of Climate Change 6. STRUCTURE OF THE GLOBAL RECOMMENDATIONS PART B 6. STRUCTURE OF THE GLOBAL RECOMMENDATIONS Table 1: Global Recommendations and their relevance to each category of affected population Recommendation Categories of affected populations Stateless persons and/or persons without a recognized nationality status in their own country Stateless persons and/or persons without a recognized nationality status outside their own country ✓ ✓ Nationals (at risk of losing their nationality and becoming stateless) in their country of nationality Nationals (at risk of losing their nationality and becoming stateless) outside their country of nationality ✓ ✓ Identify R1 R2 ✓ Protect R3 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Reduce R4 Prevent R5 R6 ✓ R7 ✓* ✓* ✓*! ✓*! R8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ R9 ✓ * For Recommendation 7, the focus is on children at risk of statelessness being born to any of the affected populations. ! In relation to affected populations C and D in the context of Recommendation 7, in addition to the risk of statelessness for their children, the nationals in question themselves may be at risk of loss of nationality and statelessness. 6.3 As a first step, governments and relevant stakeholders should establish which of the affected population types are present, or are likely to be present in the future, in their jurisdictions, and then proceed to identify which of the Global Recommendations are most relevant to their contexts. In this sense, the Global Recommendations are not prescriptive. Rather, they can be tailored to specific circumstances. 39