Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Reports:

Children displaced in a changing climate: Preparing for a future that’s already underway (UNICEF, Oct. 2023) [access]

- Available in English, French and Spanish.

Connecting Climate Justice & Migrant Justice: A Guide to Countering Dangerous Narratives (Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants et al., Sept. 2023) [access]

"It’s Time for Us to be Included": An Assessment of Refugee and Displaced People’s Participation in National Adaptation Planning (Refugees International, Oct. 2023) [text]

Loss and Damage and Displacement: Key Messages for the Road to COP 28 (Loss and Damage Collaboration & Researching Internal Displacement, Sept. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for brief in Arabic, English, French, Italian and Spanish.

Neighbours and Navigators: Preparing for Climate Mobility from Tuvalu and Kiribati to Aotearoa (Univ. of Auckland, Sept. 2023) [text]

Thinking about Tomorrow, Acting Today: The Future of Climate Mobility (IOM, Sept. 2023) [access]

- Follow link for report and summary version in English, French and Spanish.

Journal articles:

"Climate Migration in the International and Domestic Regulation of Migration," University of South Australia Law Review, vol. 5 (2023) [full-text]

- Focuses on domestic law in Australia and New Zealand.

"Compelled and constrained migration: restrictions to migration agency in the Marshall Islands," Frontiers in Climate, 4 Aug. 2023 [open access]

"How Recognition and Implementation of the Right to a Healthy Environment Can Advance the Human Rights of Migrants," Environmental Rights Review, vol. 1, no. 1 (2023) [postprint]

"The Refugee Burden of Proof: Legal Gaps and Future Considerations for Climate Migrants," Pace Law Review, vol. 43, no. 2 (2023) [full-text]

"Where are All the Climate Migrants? Explaining Immobility amid Environmental Change," Migration Information Source,  4 Oct. 2023 [text]

Multimedia:

Migration, Disasters, and Climate Change in Eastern Africa, 26 Sept. 2023 [access]

Trapped Populations: When Climate Migration Isn’t Possible, 19 Sept. 2023 [access]

Resource:

CLIMB Database: Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation (UN Network on Migration) [access]

- "This online database compiles over 1578 national policy instruments in 172 countries and over 230 bilateral and/or regional policy instruments containing provisions of relevance to human mobility in the context of disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation."

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