11 November 2022

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

Ahead of COP27: The Climate Mobility Africa Research Network Launches its Key Messages for Governments (IOM, Oct. 2022) [text]

"As COP27 meets, Pakistan’s flood victims confront a health crisis," The New Humanitarian, 8 Nov. 2022 [text]

COP27: An opportunity to get serious about climate migration (Planet Policy Blog, Nov. 2022) [text]

From Drought to Disaster? The Debate on the Syrian Conflict and Climate Change (Borders and Limitations Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

"How to move a country: Fiji’s radical plan to escape rising sea levels," The Guardian, 8 Nov. 2022 [text]

Human Mobility at COP27 (IOM, Nov. 2022) [access]
- Lists a number of the mobility-related events that have taken/will take place at COP27.

"A humanitarian lens on COP27: Loss and damage, debt relief, and climate justice," The New Humanitarian, 7 Nov. 2022 [text]

"The hunger road: Somalis on surviving the worst drought in decades," The New Humanitarian, 31 Oct. 2022 [text]

Is the Pacific Engagement Visa Australia’s first climate change humanitarian visa? (Pearls & Irritations, Nov. 2022) [text]

Pakistan floods show why adaptation alone won’t help prevent climate disasters (ISS Blog, Oct. 2022) [text]

Putting Climate Migration Back on the COP27 Agenda (CSIS Commentary, Nov. 2022) [text]

Several reflections on the displacement in the Sahel due to climate change (African Law Matters, Oct. 2022) [text]

UNHCR’s Grandi urges world leaders not to forget displaced people at COP27 (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]
- See also related calls to action.

Reports:

African Shifts (Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, Nov. 2022) [access]
- This report "documents the current realities of climate-forced migration and displacement in Africa. The report paints possible scenarios for future population movements resulting from increasing climate impacts. It also revises the discourse of migration and climate change. It uses the term 'climate mobility' to capture the movement motivated by the adverse effects of sudden or slow-onset climate impacts." See also related post on The Conversation.

Climate Change and the Future of Human Mobility: Evidence Summary, Thematic Brief, no. 1 (IOM, Nov. 2022) [text]

Climate change, disasters and displacement of the most vulnerable in the Americas (UNHCR, Nov. 2022) [text]

COP 27 and climate-related migration and displacement (USCRI, Oct. 2022) [text]

Developing Indicators on Displacement for Disaster Risk Reduction (IOM & IDMC, Oct. 2022) [access]

Disaster Displacement in Asia and the Pacific: A Business Case for Investment in Prevention and Solutions (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Sept. 2022) [access]

Ecological Threat Report 2022: Analysing Ecological Threats, Resilience & Peace (Institute for Economics and Peace, Oct. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Gender, Displacement and Climate Change (UNHCR & Potsdam Institute, Nov. 2022) [text]

"Moving Beyond Refugee Law: Putting Principles on Climate Mobility into Practice," Keynote address at RLI 6th Annual Conference, Online, 29 June-1 July 2022 [text]
- See also video recording.

People on the Move in a Changing Climate: Linking Policy, Evidence and Action (IOM, Oct. 2022) [text]

Multimedia:

COP27: Migration, losses & damages, 25 Oct. 2022 [access]

Internal Displacement Conference, 24 Oct. 2022 [access]
- Explored "new insights and successful approaches in the prevention of and solutions to disaster displacement."

The unfairness of the climate crisis (Don’t Call Me Resilient Podcast, Nov. 2022) [access]

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