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25 June 2021

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Event:

Workshop series: Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa - Closing Plenary, 1 July 2021 [info]

Blog posts & press:

As more climate migrants cross borders seeking refuge, laws will need to adapt (The Conversation, June 2021) [text]

Climate refugees: the world’s forgotten victims (World Economic Forum, June 2021) [text]

Q&A with Stanford experts: How does climate change drive migration, and what can be done about it? (Stanford News, June 2021) [text]

Refugees and locals in Mauritania exchange strategies for adapting to climate change (UNHCR, June 2021) [text]

Should people displaced by climate change be considered refugees? (Free Movement Blog, June 2021) [text]

Viet Nam is a role model for responding to climate displacement, but there are still lessons to be learned (IDMC Blog, June 2021) [text]

Reports:

Climate change impacts on human (im-)mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent trends and options for policy responses (GIZ, July 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

La movilidad humana derivada de desastres y el cambio climático en Centroamérica (IOM, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

People on the Move: Strengthening Adaptation Responses to Support Human Movement in a Changing Climate, Technical Report (USAID, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Submissions to the US Department of State Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration on the impacts of climate change (Kaldor Centre, May & June 2021) [info]
- The "first submission covers the impacts of climate change on migration, protection and resettlement. The second focuses specifically on relocation, evacuations and statelessness in the context of climate change."

Visibilizar para Proteger: Un abordaje de datos e información sobre movilidad humana en el contexto de desastres y cambio climático en Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala y México (IECAH, June 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

"Quantifying climate change-relevant humanitarian programming and spending across five countries with high vulnerability to disaster," Disasters, Early View, 8 July 2020 [open access]

"Recognition and Protection of Environmental Migrants in International Law," Chapter in Dignity in Movement: Borders, Bodies and Rights (E-International Relations, June 2021) [open access]

Science, vol. 372, no. 6548 (June 2021) [free full-text]
- Special issue on "Climate-induced relocation," with six articles.

Multimedia:

Anticipating Climate Change and Disaster Displacement: A Conversation between Practice, Academia and Advocacy, Lecture Series [info]
- The three lectures in this series included: 1) Anticipating and Regulating Climate Migration: Climate Refugees and International Law; 2) Anticipating Climate-Induced Displacement: Trends and Prediction Models, & 3) Climate-Induced Displacement and Forecast-based Financing in Humanitarian Action; follow links to access video recordings.

Climate Change and the Impact on U.S. Immigration and Asylum Law, 26 May 2021 [access]

Human Mobility in the Face of the Climate Crisis: How prevention, protection and solutions can best respond to future trends, 22 June 2021 [access]

Scope, Scale and Pace: Recognising Climate-Related Migration in the Pacific, 12 May 2021 [access]

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