Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Online course: Climate Change and Migration: Predictions, Politics and Policy, Feb.-Nov. 2019 [info]
- No registration deadline indicated.

Publications:

Climate Change and Disaster Displacement: Key Messages on International Protection, COP 24, Katowice, Poland, 3-14 December 2018 (UNHCR, Nov. 2018) [text]

Climate Change, Migration and ‘Disappearing States’: The Case of Pacific Island Countries (UNU-GCM, Oct. 2018) [text]
- See also related LawLog Blog post.

"'Climate Refugees': Is It Time to Legally Acknowledge Those Displaced by Climate Disruption?," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, vol. 42, no. 6 (Dec. 2018) [open access]

COP24 Addresses Climate Change Migration Ahead of UN Migration Pact Meeting in Marrakech (UNFCCC, Dec. 2018) [text]
- The recommendations are included as an annex to this document. See also related Pacific Standard article.

Disasters and Displacement in a Changing Climate: The Role of Asia Pacific National Societies (IFRC, Dec. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Humanitarian Impacts of Climate Change (IRIN, Dec. 2018) [access]
- Follow link for IRIN's reporting on climate -related issues.

In Harm's Way: International Protection in the Context of Nexus Dynamics Between Conflict or Violence and Disaster or Climate Change, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 39 (UNHCR, Dec. 2018) [access]
- Follow link for full report, synthesis version and overviews in English, French and Spanish. Note: This paper refers to, but does not provide a specific reference for, a larger study that focuses on state practice. The study is also referenced in this side event announcement and in the COP 24 key messages document above.

Investing in Resilience: Addressing Climate-induced Displacement in the MENA Region (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Dec. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

No Matter of Choice: Displacement in a Changing Climate - Research Agenda and Call for Partners (IDMC, Dec. 2018) [text]

Pacific Climate Change-related Displacement and Migration: A New Zealand Action Plan (New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, May 2018) [text via APO]

South American Countries Now Have a Non-binding Regional Instrument on the Protection of Persons Displaced Across Borders and on the Protection of Migrants in Disaster Situations (Platform on Disaster Displacement, Nov. 2018) [text]

Multimedia:

Climate Change and Migration 101 (Climate & Migration Coalition, Dec. 2018) [access]
- Follow link for video.

Migration and Displacement at the Climate Talks (Climate & Migration Coalition, Dec. 2018) [access]
- Follow link for video.

What Do We Know about Data on Environmental Migration? (IOM's GMDAC, Dec. 2018) [access]
- Follow link for video.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (13 Nov. 2018)

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