Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

Anticipating and Tracking Climate Refugees in a Warming Africa (State of the Planet Blog, July 2023) [text]

'Climate-related Mobility Mostly Occurs within Borders': Disentangling Factual Truth from a Convenient Narrative (RID Blog, June 2023) [text]

Why We Won’t Reach a ‘Climate Migrant’ Protection Category—and What We Can Do Instead (CGD Blog, June 2023) [text]

Reports:

Africa Regional Brief: Human Rights in the Context of Climate-induced Migration and Displacement (FES Geneva, Climate Migration and Displacement Platform & ACT Alliance, May 2023) [access]

Climate crisis and the UK’s Rwanda refugee policy (Christian Aid, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Climate-Induced Displacement and Migration: A Proposed Framework for G20 Collaboration, T20 Policy Brief (Observer Research Foundation, June 2023) [text]

Climate-Induced Internal Displacement in MENA Countries, Policy Study, no. 29 (Euromesco, June 2023) [text]

Closing the environment-migration gap in climate policy and programmes in Kenya (Research & Evidence Facility, May 2023) [text]

Displaced to Cities: Conflict, Climate Change, and Rural-to-Urban Migration (US Institute of Peace, June 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Honduras, Jordan, and Pakistan.

Ensuring safe and regular migration for women and girls in the context of climate change (UN Women, June 2023) [text]

Providing legal options to protect the human rights of persons displaced across international borders due to climate change: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, Ian Fry, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/53/34 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2023) [access]

- Follow link for document text in six UN languages. See also related press release.

Solving Climate Displacement through Proactive Land Policy (Displacement Solutions, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

The toll of drought on displaced and vulnerable people in Somalia (Joint Data Center, June 2023) [text]

Multimedia:

Climate Change and Humanitarian Action Learning Stream (ICVA & PHAP) [access]

- Series of training sessions that focus on the "Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organisations." Video recordings are available via PHAP's YouTube channel.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (7 June 2023)