06 December 2023

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

10 things to know about climate change and displacement (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

"1.2 million in Latin America displaced by disasters, study finds," Axios, 28 Nov. 2023 [text]

COP28 – climate mobility: the goal is sustainable adaptation – either in place or on the move (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]

COP28: with a ‘loss and damage’ fund in place, protecting climate refugees is more urgent than ever (The Conversation, Dec. 2023) [text]

Human Mobility at COP28 (IOM, Nov. 2023) [access]
- Provides info on the climate migration-related events taking place at COP28.

Refugees and displaced people from climate frontlines call for greater inclusion at COP28 (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

UN Common Messages on Internal Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change for COP28 (UN, Nov. 2023) [text]

UNHCR and UC Law San Francisco Announce First Sergio Vieira De Mello Chair in the United States for International Refugee Law (UNHCR, Nov. 2023) [text]

UNHCR calls for urgent global action at COP28, highlighting climate change’s impact on the displacement crisis (UNHCR, Dec. 2023) [text]

"What happened on COP28’s big humanitarian day?," The New Humanitarian, 4 Dec. 2023 [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate refugees or labour migrants? climate reductive translations of women’s migration from coastal Bangladesh," Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 50, no. 6 (2023) [open access]

"Health Problems of Increasing Man-Made and Climate-Related Disasters on Forcibly Displaced populations: A Scoping Review on Global Evidence," Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, vol. 17 (2023) [open access]

Reports:

Addressing Climate Change-Related Human Immobilities, Working Paper, no. 54 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]

Advances in data collection on the environmental change-migration nexus, Policy Brief, no. 21 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]

Aftershock: An assessment of how climate change is influencing migration and vulnerability in Libya (IOM, Nov. 2023) [text]

Bridging the science–policy gap in the climate migration field, Policy Brief, no. 22 (KNOMAD, Dec. 2023) [text

Climate Displacement Litigation: Navigating the Human Rights Landscape - A Global Review (Displacement Solutions, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Disaster risks, migration, and forced displacement: Understanding the link between disaster risk, migration and forced displacement in Colombia (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

IASC Guidance on Environmental Responsibility in Humanitarian Operations (IASC, Dec. 2023) [text]

Inadequate and inequitable: water scarcity and displacement in Iraq (Norwegian Refugee Council, Nov. 2023) [text]

Overview of Strategic Plan for Climate Action 2024–2030 (UNHCR, updated Nov. 2023) [text]

Resilience on the move: Migration’s powerful role in creating climate resilience (Climate and Migration Coalition, Nov. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Working toward durable local integration solutions for drought-displaced people, Policy Brief, no. 20 (KNOMAD, Nov. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on Ethiopia.

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