Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Online dialogue: Evidence vs. Myth: Understanding Displacement in a Changing Climate, 8 December 2020 [info]

Seminar: Global Policy Debates, Mobility and Natural Hazards, 9 December 2020 [info]

Blog posts & press:

10 Ways to Tackle Climate Displacement in the Run Up to 2030 (IDMC Blog, Dec. 2020) [text]

‘Climate change is the defining crisis of our time and it particularly impacts the displaced’ (UNHCR, Nov. 2020) [text]

- Interview with UNHCR’s Special Advisor on Climate Action.

Could Novel Approaches to Urban Tenure Help to Reduce Disaster Displacement Risk in the Pacific? (IDMC Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

How Climate Change is Multiplying Risks for Displacement (UNHCR, Dec. 2020) [text]

"In Storm-hit Honduras, a Climate Crisis Drives Needs and Fuels Migration," The New Humanitarian, 18 Nov. 2020 [text]

Planned Relocation: A Conversation with Climate Displacement Expert Elizabeth Ferris (RI Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

Policy Approaches to Climate Migration: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (Lawfare Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Change and Migration: Dialogues with Community Stakeholders in Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan,"  Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, no. 55 (2020) [full-text]

- Scroll to p. 27.

*"Climate Change, Human Mobility, and Development," Migration Studies, Advance Articles, 2 Dec. 2020 [abstract]

*"Effect of border policy on exposure and vulnerability to climate change," PNAS, vol. 117, no. 43 (Oct. 2020) [open access]

"Human Rights Committee’s Decision on the Case Ieoane Teitiota v New Zealand: Landmark or Will-o’-the-wisp for Climate Refugees?," Questions of International Law - Zoom In, no. 75 (2020) [open access]

- Introductory article, followed by two reflections on the decision's impact and potential ramifications: "Is an enhanced non-refoulement regime under the ICCPR the answer to climate change-related human mobility challenges in the Pacific? Reflections on Teitiota v New Zealand in the Human Rights Committee" and "The Teitiota Case and the limitations of the human rights framework."

"Migration as Reparation: Climate Change and the Disruption of Borders," Loyola Law Review (New Orleans), vol. 66 (Forthcoming, 2020) [preprint]

"Special Issue: Climate Change and Migration," Migration Information Source [access]

- Currently, three articles are available.

Reports:

The Impact of Climate Displacement on the Right to Education (UNESCO, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

World Disasters Report 2020: Come Heat or High Water - Tackling the Humanitarian Impacts of the Climate Crisis Together (IFRC, Nov. 2020) [access via ReliefWeb]

- Follow link for complete text and summary in English and summary in Arabic. The report is also available in French.

 

Multimedia:

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: One Billion Climate Migrants? Not So Fast, 25 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for audio recording.

Climate Mobilities: Migration, Im/mobilities, and Climate Change, 18 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Conceptualising Policy: Do ‘Climate Refugees’ or ‘Environmental Migrants’ Really Exist? , 7 Oct. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

COVID-19 and Climate Change: What Can We Learn?, 2 Dec. 2020 [access] 

- Note: This session was part of the virtual line-up for the 2020 High Commissioner’s Dialogue on Protection Challenges. Scroll to bottom for video recording and short film. See also related news release and news story.

Data and Knowledge on Human Mobility in the Context of Natural Hazards, 11 Nov. 2020 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (25 Oct. 2020)