Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Climate Displacement Program Manager, Refugees International [info]
- Candidate sought to implement "RI’s strategy and advocacy to enhance the legal, policy, and operational responses and solutions to displacement and forced migration arising in the context of disasters and climate change." No deadline indicated.

Publications:

Australia’s Chance to Turn with the Tide: Enabling Safe, Orderly, and Dignified Movement (APPS Policy Forum, May 2019) [text]

"Climate Change & Mobilities," Routed Magazine (June 2019) [access]
- "In this issue, we examine this complex and multidimensional connection between migration, (im)mobilities and the planet’s changing climate. From the Pacific Islands to the Gulf of Mexico, our authors look into how communities and governments respond to climate challenges and decide to move or to stay. We test the current legal framework for refugees to see if climate-induced migrants could fit into it, and we warn about the dangers of xenophobic discourse trying to penetrate areas of the movement for climate justice. Our first long read sheds light into the ways in which mobility is tied to the functioning of fossil fuel industries too."

"Climate Now Biggest Driver of Migration, Study Finds," SciDev.net, 8 May 2019 [text]

Communicating the Complexity of Displacement in a Changing Climate (UNHCR Innovation Service, March 2019) [text via Medium]
- Scroll down to access the five chapters in this special report.

Cross-border Displacement, Climate Change and Disasters: Latin America and the Caribbean (Platform on Disaster Displacement & UNHCR, July 2018) [text]

"Defining Environmental Refugees," The Parliament Magazine, 10 May 2019 [text]

Disaster Displacement: How to Reduce Risk, Address Impacts and Strengthen Resilience (UNDRR, June 2019) [access]
- Follow link for report in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.

"Environmental Refugees: Rethinking What's in a Name," North Carolina Journal of International Law, vol. 44 (2019) [full-text via Univ. of Baltimore]

How Climate Change Exacerbates the Refugee Crisis – and What can be Done about It (World Economic Forum Blog, June 2019) [text]

Lineamientos Regionales en Materia de Protección y Asistencia a Personas Desplazadas a Través de Fronteras y Migrantes en Países Afectados por Desastres de Origen Natural (IOM & Platform on Disaster Displacement, Nov. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Links Between Climate Change, Disasters, Migration, and Social Resilience in Asia: A Literature Review (Asia Development Bank, July 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Midyear Update: Climate Displacement," The New Humanitarian, 24 June 2019 [text]

La Movilidad Humana en la Agenda Climática de las Américas: Necesidades y Oportunidades (IOM, June 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Natural Disasters 2018 (CRED, June 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Overlapping Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of Climate Change on Humanitarian Needs (Norwegian Red Cross, May 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Climate Change and Humanitarian Consequences: Perspectives, Challenges and Responses, Oslo, 5 June 2019 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (6 May 2019)

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