Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for registration: Annual Thematic Course on International Protection: Climate Change and Forced Displacement, Online, 3-21 October 2022 [info]

- Register by 2 September 2022.

Blog posts & press:

Leveraging household surveys to boost research on climate migration (Let's Talk Development Blog, July 2022) [text]

New Ministerial Declaration on Migration, Climate Change & Environment is endorsed by Presidents and Ministers from the East and Horn Africa, in Kampala, Uganda (IOM, July 2022) [text]

- The text of the declaration is here.

One million people displaced by drought in Somalia (UNHCR & NRC, Aug. 2022) [text]

Reports:

Beyond Panic: Exploring Climate Mobilities in Senegal, Guatemala, Cambodia and Kenya - Case Study Report (WeWorld-GVC, Aug. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Desplazados climáticos: evolución de su reconocimiento y protección jurídica, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas Serie Doctrina Jurídica, no. 921 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2021) [text]

Guiding Principles for Children on the Move in the Context of Climate Change (UNICEF et al., July 2022) [access]

Mapeo sobre Migración, Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático en América del Sur (IOM & PDD, 2022) [text]

Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Iraq (IOM, Aug. 2022) [access]

Movilidad Humana en Contextos de Desastres, Degradación Ambiental y Cambio Climático en Costa Rica: Análisis de Evidencia y de Políticas, Migración, Serie de Notas de Políticas, no. 2 (IOM & PDD, June 2022) [text]

Movilidad Humana en el Contexto del Cambio Climático y Desastres en Centroamérica: Una Perspectiva de Derechos Humanos (IIDH, PDD & RESAMA, 2022) [text]

Policy Brief on Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Ukraine (IOM, April 2022) [text]

The Responsibility of the International Community in Situations of Human Mobility Due to Environmental Causes, Working Paper, no. 1 (Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, July 2022) [text]

Articles:

"Discovery of Oil Could Bring Migrant Labor Opportunities and Climate Displacement Challenges for Guyana," Migration Information Source, 27 July 2022 [text]

"Does Changing the Narrative Improve Host Community Attitudes Toward Climate Migrants? Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 9 Aug. 2022 [preprint]

"Managing, now becoming, refugees: Climate change and extractivism in the Republic of Nauru," American Anthropologist, Early View, 26 July 2022 [open access]

"Political ecologies of resettlement in river deltas," Geography Compass, vol. 16, no. 6 (June 2022) [open access]

Routed Magazine, no. OMC22 (June 2022) [full-text]

- Section 3 of this special issue focuses on "Climate Change and (Im)mobility."

Multimedia:

Strengthening Governance to Reduce Disaster Displacement Risks, Session at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Indonesia, 26 May 2022 [access]

- Follow link for video recording, related documents, and background materials.

Resource:

Geneva Technical Hub (GTH) [access]

- Contributes "to the Second Pillar of the UNHCR’s Strategic Framework for Climate Action and its recently launched Operational Strategy by studying solutions to support the conservation of the natural environment and mitigate environmental degradation." Read an overview of the GTH here.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (21 July 2022)