Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & media:

*8 Refugees Fighting for the Planet (Medium, Sept. 2019) [text]

Africa’s Climate Crisis, Conflict, and Migration Challenges (Africa in Focus Blog, Sept. 2019) [text]

'Burning up our future': How Climate Crisis is Triggering Increasing Displacement (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2019) [text]

How Climate Change is Driving Emigration from Central America (The Conversation, Sept. 2019) [text]

IOM Hosts Meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Task Force on Displacement – Key Outcomes and Looking Ahead (IOM, July 2019) [text]

"Leak Suggests UN Agency Self-censors on Climate Crisis after US Pressure," The Guardian, 11 Sept. 2019 [text]

"Migration and the Climate Crisis: The UN’s Search for Solutions," UN News, 31 July 2019 [text]

*Refugees from Rising Seas: No Place to Call Home (Phys.org, Sept. 2019) [text]

"Roundup: The Soaring Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change," The New Humanitarian, 20 Sept. 2019 [text]
- "[O]ur latest coverage on how climate change is already having a humanitarian impact around the world."

Solving Climate Displacement is More Urgent Than Ever - Today the Peninsula Principles Turn 6! (Displacement Solutions, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

The World Isn’t Ready for Climate Refugees (FiveThirtyEight, Sept. 2019) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Addressing the Land Degradation-Migration Nexus: The Role of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (IOM, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Border and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Change," Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 7 (June 2019) [open access]

"Climate Change Refugees in the Time of Sinking Islands," Journal of Transnational Law, vol. 52, no. 3 (2019) [full-text]

The Climate Crisis, Migration, and Refugees (Brookings Institution, July 2019) [text]

The Cost of Doing Nothing: The Humanitarian Price of Climate Change and How It Can be Avoided (ICRC, Sept. 2019) [access]

"Domestic Evolution: Amending the United States Refugee Definition of the INA to Include Environmentally Displaced Refugees," University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review, vol. 9, no. 1 (2019) [full-text]

Guidance, Standards, and Protocols in the Humanitarian Sector on Reducing Harm to the Environment, K4D Helpdesk Report (DFID, Aug. 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Migration Influenced by Environmental Change in Africa: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence," Demographic Research, vol. 41, art. no. 18 (Aug. 2019) [open access]

"Not a Security Issue: How Policy Experts De-Politicize the Climate Change–Migration Nexus," Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 7 (July 2019) [open access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (8 July 2019)

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