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29 March 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for input: HRC56 thematic report on climate change and internal displacement [info]
- Submit comments by 1 April 2024.

Short pieces:

Climate-induced Migration (nccr – on the move Blog, Jan.-Feb. 2024) [access]
- Three-part series.

From Bad to Worse: Climate Migration in Middle East (Lawfare Blog, March 2024) [text]

The Gaps in NAPs: More Must be Done to Integrate Human (Im)mobility into National Adaptation Plans (RID Blog, March 2024) [text

Planned Relocations and Durable Solutions: Learning from Parallel Conversations (RID Blog, March 2024) [text

Vastria CCAC: A rights-based study of the environmental conditions of European reception centers (RLI Blog, March 2024) [text]

Reports:

Country Report on Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Libya (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Focus Area Strategic Plan for Climate Action 2024-2030 (UNHCR, March 2024) [text]

Groundwater: A resilient resource for climate change adaptation in displacement and migration situations (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Report on Migration, Environment, and Climate Change in Yemen (IOM, March 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

"‘Environmental Refugees’: A Case Study of the Chakmas in India," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 11, no. 2 (2024) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 8.

"How well can we predict climate migration? A review of forecasting models," Frontiers in Climate, 4 Jan. 2024 [open access]

Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, no. 84 (March 2024) [full-text]
 - Focuses on "Climate change, conflict and displacement."

"Refugees, Climate Litigation in the Global South and Climate Change: Facing the Gap in the Protection of Climate Refugees in International Law," Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional, vol. XXIV (2024) [open access]

"Social Vulnerabilities among Immigrants and Refugees in Emergencies and Disasters: A Systematic Review," Frontiers in Public Health, 6 March 2024 [open access]

"Staying put in an era of climate change: The geographies, legalities, and public health implications of immobility," WIREs Climate Change, Early View, 6 Feb. 2024 [open access]
- See also related news story.

Multimedia:

Could a Loss and Damage Fund Compensate Climate Migrants? (Changing Climate, Changing Migration Podcast Series, March 2024) [access]

Moving Mountains: Climate Migration in High Altitudes (Changing Climate, Changing Migration Podcast Series, Feb. 2024) [access]

Resources:

Climate Displacement and Resilience Database (UC Berkeley) [access]
- The objective of this database is to "advance protections for peoples displaced by the climate crisis and to connect information and data needed to create strategies in service of the 'Right to Stay'." More info is available in this video recording of the launch event.

CLIMB Database: Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Database (UN Migration Network) [access]
- This database provides access to  policy instruments that contain "provisions of relevance to human mobility in the context of disasters, the adverse effects of climate change, and environmental degradation."

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