Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts:

Can Climate Refugees Have Hope? (Psychology Today Blog, July 2020) [text]

Covid-19, Climate Migrants, and Complementary Protection: Why Socio-economic Rights Matter More Than Ever (RLI Blog, July 2020) [text]

Environmental Refugees - Error 404: Not Found in International Law (Border Criminologies Blog, July 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate Change and Forced Migration: How Climate Refugees Fit into EU Asylum Law, Master's thesis (Uppsala University, 2020) [text]

"Climate Humanitarian Visa: International Migration Opportunities as Post-disaster Humanitarian Intervention," Climatic Change, vol. 160,  no. 1 (May 2020) [open access]

"Collaboration in International Policy for the Climate Displaced," Mundi: Global Studies Society Undergraduate Research Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

COVID-19, Displacement and Climate Change (UNHCR & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, June 2020) [text]

Evicted by Climate Change: Confronting the Gendered Impacts of Climate-induced Displacement (CARE, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related press release.

Forced Migration Review, no. 64 (June 2020) [open access]
- Includes a feature theme on "Climate crisis and local communities," with 11 articles.

Gender, Displacement and Climate Change (UNHCR & & Potsdam Inst. for Climate Impact Research, July 2020) [text]

"Indeterminación del Estatus Jurídico del Migrante por Cambio Climático," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XX (2020) [open access]

Internal Displacement in the Context of the Slow-onset Adverse Effects of Climate Change (IOM, June 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Note: This was IOM' submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons for a forthcoming report.

Land and Climate Change: Rights and Environmental Displacement in Mozambique (Leiden Univ., 2020) [access]
- Follow link for research report and policy brief in English and Portuguese.

"Quantifying Climate Change Relevant Humanitarian Programming and Spending Across Five Highly Disaster Vulnerable Countries," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 8 July 2020 [open access]

When Crises Converge: Responding to Natural Disasters in South Asia during Covid-19 (UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Climate Change and Migration: Converging Issues, Diverging Funding, Webinar, 29 June 2020 [info]
- Follow link for podcast and video recording.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (8 June 2020)