05 March 2023

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Blog posts & press:

Climate Change-induced Sea-Level Rise Direct Threat to Millions around World, Secretary-General Tells Security Council (UN Meetings Coverage, Feb. 2023) [text]
- See also related Twitter thread.

"Climate displacement & migration in South East Asia," IPS News, 28 Feb. 2023 [text]

Conceptualising Resistance to Climate Mobility: Re-emplacement and Anti-displacement Mobilities (RID Blog, Feb. 2023) [text
- Focuses on Tuvalu.

Moving climate: a newsletter on migration and climate change [access]
- Reflections from Alex Randall on climate change's power to "reshape patterns of migration and displacement."

Responding to Pakistan floods (Future Development Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

UN is wrong to say 700 million will be displaced by drought (Devex, Feb. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Africa.

Walking the Talk of Environmental Migration in 2023 (Geneva Policy Outlook, Jan. 2023) [text]

"Why this NGO is publishing its carbon emissions," The New Humanitarian, 20 Feb. 2023 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Bridging the gap: environmental change, mobility and policy in Ethiopia’s Somali Region and Somaliland (Research & Evidence Facility, Feb. 2023) [text]

"Exploring the benefits and dis-benefits of climate migration as an adaptive strategy along the rural-peri-urban continuum in Namibia," Regional Environmental Change, 23:10 (Dec. 2022) [open access]

"'I can migrate, but why should I?'—voluntary non-migration despite creeping environmental risks," Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10:34 (Jan. 2023) [open access]

"The Impact of Climate Change on Statelessness in the Southern African Region," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 8, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2022) [full-text]

"Large weather and conflict effects on internal displacement in Somalia with little evidence of feedback onto conflict," Global Environmental Change, vol. 79 (March 2023) [open access]

"Measuring the effect of climate change on migration flows: Limitations of existing data and analytical frameworks," PLOS Climate 2(1): e0000078 (Jan. 2023) [open access]

"Migración climática y fronteras militarizadas: seguridad humana, de género y ambiental = Climate Migration and Militarized Borders: Human, Gender, and Environmental Security," Frontera Norte, vol. 35 (2023) [open access]
- Available in both Spanish and English.

"Socio-environmental displacement associated with climate change: an emergency of the risk society in the central coffee-growing region of Colombia," Estudios Socio-jurídicos, vol. 25, no. 1 (2023) [open access]

"Teitiota v. New Zealand: Exemplifying the Legal Complexities of the ‘Climate Refugee’ Debate," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 1 (2023) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 39.

Multimedia:

Climate Impacts as Drivers of Displacement, 22 Feb. 2023 [access]

The Courts, Climate Change, Migrant and Refugee Rights, 2 March 2023 [access]

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