25 October 2020

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

Clean Energy Challenge: Affordable, reliable and sustainable energy for displaced persons and host communities (UNHCR et al., Sept. 2020) [text]

Climate migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines (The Conversation, Oct. 2020) [text]
- See also related Twitter thread.

How many people will migrate due to rising sea levels? Our best guesses aren’t good enough (The Conversation, Sept. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate Change, Disasters and Mobility: A Roadmap for Australian Action, Policy Brief, no. 10 (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2020) [access]
- Follow link for text and related podcast. See also related Just Security blog post.

"Climate Change, Migration, and Civil Strife," Current Environmental Health Reports, Latest Articles, 13 Oct. 2020 [open access]

"Climate-Induced Migration: Will Tribunals Save the Day?," Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 2 (2020) [preprint]

"Impacts of Climate Change as Drivers of Migration," Migration Information Source, 23 Oct. 2020 [text]

Indigenous Peoples’ Knowledge and Climate Adaptation (UNHCR & AFPAT, Aug. 2020) [text]

Legal considerations regarding claims for international protection made in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters (UNHCR, Oct. 2020) [text]

"The Paris Agreement, Forced Migration, and America's Changing Refugee Policy," Loyola University Chicago International Law Review, vol. 16, no. 2 (2020) [extract]
- Note: The full-text of this article will eventually be posted here.

Trust, Temperature Fluctuations, and Asylum Applications, Working Paper, no. 8537 (CESifo, 2020) [text]

Multimedia:

The Big Climate Movement: Migration and displacement in times of climate change (Migration Matters) [access]
- Video series for viewers to "explore the contested relationship between climate change and mobility, discover why the term 'climate refugee' is so controversial, and learn why it is hard to predict numbers of those who will be on the move."

"Climate Conflict: Migration," Pearson Global Forum 2020, 6-8 Oct. 2020 [access]

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