05 January 2022

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

Climate change is killing migrants crossing the US border: study (The Hill, Dec. 2021) [text]

Climate migrants: when your house is no longer home (World Economic Forum Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

COP26: 5 Takeaways for Climate Migration and Displacement (RI Blog, Nov. 2021) [text]

Disaster-induced Internal Displacement in India in 2020: A Review (RID Blog, Dec. 2021) [text]

White House Issues Report on Climate Change and Migration (Jeffrey S. Chase Blog, Nov. 2021) [text via LexisNexis)

World must turn COP26 words into action for forcibly displaced and stateless people (UNHCR, Nov. 2021) [text]

Reports: 

Assessing vulnerabilities to disaster displacement: A good practice review (UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Climate Change & Humanitarian Action 2021 (Groupe URD, Nov. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Development of Guidance for the Field Protection Clusters and Areas of Responsibility on Preparedness for Protection in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: Report on Regional Consultations (Global Protection Cluster, Dec. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Evaluating Hong Kong's Legal and Policy Frameworks to Address Climate and Disaster-related Displacement in the Pearl River Delta, RID Working Paper, no. 10 (Researching Internal Displacement, Dec. 2021) [text

Land, climate change and internal migration among the Wolayta youth of southwest Ethiopia (Research & Evidence Facility, Nov. 2021) [text]

Planned relocation: a climate adaptation response for Southern Africa (ISS, Nov. 2021) [text]

The Time to Act Is Now: A Call to Combat Environmental Breakdown (Borderline Europe, Eng. transl. Nov. 2021) [full-text]
- This "book shows how the ecological crises we are facing today are rooted in social and political power structures. The book details moments of the [Sea-Watch 3] rescue mission but also connects the dots to forced migration and the urgency of our environmental predicament. Overall, it is a call to engage and act, to become part of initiatives and movements struggling for social and environmental justice."

Journal articles:

"Exploring the relationship between distinct identity formation and urban climate displacees in a post-migration context," SN Social Sciences, vol. 1, no. 7 (July 2021) [full-text via Bangladesh Inst. of Planners]
- Focuses on Bangladesh. 

"Haitians in limbo: Legal responses for migration induced by the 2010 Haitian earthquake on the American continent," Pécs Journal of International and European Law, vol. II (2021) [full-text]

"Migration and Human Displacement in the Context of Climate Change: Reflections on the Category of Climate Refugees," Peace & Security = Paix et Sécurité Internationales, no. 9 (2021) [open access]

*"The role of anticipatory humanitarian action to reduce disaster displacement," Environmental Research Letters, 17:014043 (Jan. 2022) [open access]

Multimedia:

Preparing for the Great Climate Migration, Devex Panel at COP 26, 9 Nov. 2021 [access]

*The Role of the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) in Climate Action and Displacement, 14 Dec. 2021 [access]

When Climate Change Comes to Refugee Settings (Changing Climate, Changing Migration Podcast, Dec. 2021) [access]

*UPDATED

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