08 October 2021

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Call for registration: Whose move? Addressing migration and displacement in the face of climate change, Online, 19-21 October 2021 [info]
- Additional info is available here. In addition, the Kaldor Centre is posting speaker spotlights that can be accessed via their home page.

Seminar: Measuring Disasters: The role of self-report surveys, geospatial linkage and citizen science approaches, 28 October 2021 [info]

Blog post:

A grassroots perspective on people displaced by climate change (Kaldor Centre, Oct. 2021) [text]

Reports:

Action on climate-linked migration and displacement: Empowering refugee and migrant led organisations (Climate Outreach, 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Addressing Internal Displacement in the Context of Climate Change (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Sept. 2021) [text

Climate Action: Good Practices (UNHCR, Sept. 2021) [access]
- Examples are available for Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Jordan. Scroll down to "Latest Updates."

Groundswell, Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration (World Bank, Sept. 2021) [access]
- Follow the link for the report in English and overviews in Arabic, French and Spanish. Policy notes are also available for the Middle East and North Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and Europe and Central Asia regions.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate change and migration impacts on cities: Lessons from Bangladesh," Environmental Challenges, vol. 5 (Dec. 2021) [open access]

"Climate Migration is about People, Not Numbers," Chapter in Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis (Open Book Publishers, Sept. 2021) [open access]

"Towards Legal Recognition and Protection of Environmentally Displaced Persons Under Refugee Law," Journal of Conflict Management and Sustainable Development, vol. 7, no. 1 (2021) [open access]

"When Covid-19 meets conflict: politics of the pandemic response in fragile and conflict-affected states," Disasters, Accepted Articles, 22 Sept. 2021 [open access]
- "The paper is based on seven case studies of countries that experienced social conflict at the advent of the pandemic outbreak: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Haiti, Zimbabwe, Philippines, India, Brazil and Chile."

Multimedia:

Displacement: The Human Impact of the Climate Crisis, 19 Aug. 2021 [access]

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