15 April 2022

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Oppportunity:

UNHCR Global Consultations with Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Geneva and online, 7-10 June 2022 [info]
- Two themes will be discussed, one of which is climate action. Read the concept note for more details.

Blog posts & press:

Climate migration—deepening our solutions (Africa in Focus Blog, March 2022) [text]

Defining Persecution: The Case of Climate Refugees and the 1951 Convention (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, March 2022) [text]

Drought and Its Impact on Internal Displacement in Non-Rural Contexts (RID Blog, April 2022) [text]

Human mobility in times of climate crisis: Forced migration, displacement, and resettlement in the new IPCC report (NCHS Blog, March 2022) [text]

What about the Climate Displaced? (Project Syndicate, March 2022) [text]

"Why we still don’t yet know how bad climate migration will get," Vox, 16 March 2022 [text]

New open access book:

The Politics of Climate Change Knowledge: Labelling Climate Change-induced Uprooted People (Routledge, March 2022) [open access]
- "This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as ‘climate refugees’ or as ‘climate change-induced displaced people or migrants’. ...The author uses the primary case study of Bangladesh to demonstrate how the dominant actors in global climate politics – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and the World Bank, as well as the USA and the UK – interact with the government and local NGOs in Bangladesh regarding transmitting the knowledge of climate change, labelling the uprooted people, and implementing resilience projects."

Reports & journal articles:

Climate Change, Displacement and Human Rights (UNHCR & OHCHR, March 2022) [text]

"Climate migration studies in the Pacific (CMSP): A bibliometric analysis," Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 4 (2022) [open access]

"Cumulative Socionatural Displacements: Reconceptualizing Climate Displacements in a World Already on the Move," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 112, no. 3 (2022) [author site]

Forced Migration Review, no. 69 (March 2022) [open access]
- Featured theme is "Climate crisis and displacement: from commitment to action."

"Global Warming and Displacement: Challenges and Solutions in the Maldives," Revista Tecnológica ESPOL, vol. 34, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

Leaving Place, Restoring Home II: A Review of French, Spanish and Portuguese Literature on Planned Relocation in the Context of Hazards, Disasters, and Climate Change (IOM, March 2022) [text]

"The Power to Stay: Climate, Cocoa, and the Politics of Displacement," Annals of the American Association of Geographers, vol. 112, no. 3 (2022) [free full-text]
- Focuses on Indonesia.

Multimedia:

Between COP26 and the UN Global Compacts: EU–US cooperation on climate change and migration, 31 March 2022 [access]

Changing Climate, Changing Migration: Are Climate Migrants Treated Differently than Other Migrants?, 29 March 2022 [access]

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