Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

African Countries Sign Continental Agreement to Address Climate Mobility (IOM, Sept. 2023) [text]

- See also related news release.

Environmental disasters and climate change force people to cross borders, but they’re not recognised as refugees – they should be (The Conversation, Sept. 2023) [text]

Libya’s floods: a climate change and governance tragedy (ISS Today, Sept. 2023) [text]

Maui After Fire Illustrates Need to Plan for Longer-Term Disaster Displacement (Just Security Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Unraveling the Future: Data-Driven Action for Climate-Induced Forced Displacement (UNHCR Blog, Sept. 2023) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Assessing serious disturbances to public order under the 1969 OAU Convention, including in the context of disasters, environmental degradation and the adverse effects of climate change, Legal and Protection Policy Research Series, no. 41 (UNHCR, Sept. 2023) [text]

*"The Bangladeshi Diaspora: Unsung champions of confronting climate change-induced disasters," Routed Magazine, no. 22 (July 2023) [text]

"Climate Refugees: Current or Future Issue in Society and Law?," Chapter in The EU Green Deal

and its Implementation (Nomos, 2023) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 269.

"Conflict, Climate Change, and Displacement Nexus Revisited: The Protracted Rohingya Refugee Crisis in Bangladesh," Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, OnlineFirst, 31 July 2023 [open access]

The impact of climate change on forced displacement, JDC Quarterly Digest, no. 8 (July 2023) [text]

International Migration, vol. 61, no. 5 (Oct. 2023) [contents]

- Features a special section on "Environmental (im)mobilities: Improving the evidence base for effective policy making." The introduction and two articles are open access.

Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft = Yearbook Migration and Society 2022/2023 (transcript Verlag, Aug. 2023) [open access]

- The theme of this edition is "Climate." Articles are in English or German.

Migrant Groups Affected by Disaster (Turkish Red Crescent Society, Aug. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Türkiye.

Movimientos migratorios sur-sur: Fronteras, trayectorias y desigualdades, Boletines 5, 6 & 7 (CLASCO, Aug. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for three-part newsletter focusing on "Movilidad humana, ambiente y cambio climático."

Pobreza, cambio climático y DESCA en Centro América y México, en el contexto de movilidad humana (OAS, Aug. 2023) [text]

*UNHCR sustainable supply: greening the supply chain (UNHCR, Sept. 2023) [text]

- See also related story.

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (31 Aug. 2023)