Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

Climate Crisis, Migration and Refugees: Bridging the Legal Protection Gap for a Sustainable Future (RLI Blog, July 2020) [text]

Fleeing the Climate: The ‘Great Migration’ Ahead (State of the Planet Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

"The Great Climate Migration," New York Times, 23 July 2020 [access]

"How Helpful is the Term 'Climate Refugee'?," The Guardian, 31 Aug. 2020 [text]

"Research Centre Created in Anticipation of Climate Induced Migration in Pacific," RNZ News, 28 July 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate Change and Migration: Legal and Policy Challenges and Responses to Environmentally Induced Migration (European Parliament, July 2020) [text via ICMPD]

Climate Change, Justice and Human Rights (Amnesty International Netherlands, Aug. 2020) [text]
- Scroll to p. 27 to see the chapter on "Climate change and human movement."

"Climate Change-Induced Migration: Pre-Conditions Determining Out-Migration in Semi-Arid Areas of Shinyanga, Tanzania," Journal of Science and Sustainable Development, vol. 7, no. 1 (2020) [open access]

"Complications of the Climate Change Narrative within the Lives of Climate Refugees: Slow Causality and Apocalyptic Themes," Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development, no. 22 (2020) [open access]

*"A Framework for the Future of Climate Refugees," Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, vol. 34, no. 3 (Spring 2020) [full-text]

Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/75/207 (UN General Assembly, July 2020) [text]
- "In the present thematic report, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, examines internal displacement in the context of the slow-onset adverse effects of climate change."

*Legal Protections for Environmental Migrants: Expanding Possibilities and Redefining Success, CLALS Working Paper, no. 29 (American Univ., Sept. 2020) [text]

Migration, Environment and Climate Change Series (Umweltbundesamt, 2020)
- Includes three reports: a literature review, an assessment of impacts, and suggestions for policy responses.

"Migration under Climate Change in Southern Africa: A Nexus Planning Perspective," Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 11 (June 2020) [open access]

"Prospects for Protection in Light of the Human Rights Committee’s Decision in Teitiota v New Zealand," Polish Migration Review (Forthcoming) [preprint]

*"Refugiados ambientales: Una propuesta de protección a los desplazados trasnacionales por motivos ambientales en América Latina," Latin American Law Review, no. 5 (2020) [open access]

"Trapped or Voluntary? Non-Migration Despite Climate Risks," Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 11 (June 2020) [open access]

VOICE Out Loud, no. 30 (Aug. 2020) [full-text via ReliefWeb]
- Theme is "Humanitarian Action in the Era of Climate Change."

Multimedia:

New series on "The Big Climate Movement: Migration and Displacement in Times of Climate Change" (Migration Matters) [info]
- Will launch on 14 September 2020.

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (17 July 2020)