28 April 2021

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

"Climate Change and its Global Migration Impact," Peace Policy, 25 March 2021 [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Climate Change Will Force Us to Rethink Migration and Asylum," Scientific American, 22 April 2021 [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Immobility: The neglected flipside of the climate displacement crisis," The New Humanitarian, 26 April 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Climate Crises and the Creation of ‘Undeserving’ Victims," Social Sciences, vol. 10, no. 4 (April 2021) [open access]

*Forecast-based financing and disaster displacement: acting early to reduce the humanitarian impacts of displacement (IFRC, Dec. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"How a Universal Definition May Shape the Looming Climate Refugee Crisis," Human Rights Brief, vol. 24, no. 3 (2021) [full-text]

Identifying Climate Adaptive Solutions to Displacement in Somalia (Samuel Hall et al., 2021) [text]

"Of Harm, Culprits and Rectification: Obtaining Corrective Justice for Climate Change Displacement," Transnational Environmental Law, vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2021) [free full-text]

Recommendations for addressing drought displacement in Ethiopia (IDMC, April 2021) [text]

Recommendations for addressing drought displacement in Somalia (IDMC, April 2021) [text]

"Risks and Impacts," Chapter in State of the Global Climate 2020 (World Meteorological Organization, 2021) [access via IOM]
- Scroll to p. 34.

Shelter from the Storm: Policy Options to Address Climate Induced Displacement from the Northern Triangle (Harvard Univ., University Network for Human Rights & Yale Univ., April 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report, summaries and press release. See also related blog post.

Strategic Framework for Climate Action (UNHCR, April 2021) [text]

Multimedia/data visualization:

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: No “Climate Refugees,” But Still a Role for the UN Refugee Agency, 19 April 2021 [access]

Displaced on the Frontlines of the Climate Emergency (UNHCR, April 2021) [access]
- "The data visualization explores how disasters linked to climate change may worsen poverty, food insecurity and access to natural resources in ways that can stoke instability and violence. The impacts of our changing climate are being felt worldwide, but countries already struggling with conflict, poverty and high levels of displacement are dealing with some of the most severe effects." Includes examples from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Mozambique. See also related new story.

How the U.S. Can Lead on Climate Change and Displacement Policy: Views from Communities on the Frontlines, 22 April 2021 [access]

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