28 June 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

Cartagena+40: Latin America and the Caribbean address protection responses to displacement in the context of disasters and the adverse effects of climate change (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

Climate Mobility Justice, the Right to Stay, and the Problem with Mobility Regimes (RID Blog, June 2024) [text]

Expanding refugee protection for a changing climate (UNSW, June 2024) [text]

Exposure to extreme weather events increases public support for climate migrants (USAPP Blog, June 2024) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

How the Inter-American Court Could Advance Protection for Climate-Displaced Individuals (Just Security Blog, June 2024) [text]

UN Refugee Agency sounds the alarm on climate change pounding refugee communities (UNHCR, June 2024) [text]

"Youth Voices on Migration, Environment and Climate Change" Blog Series (IOM, May & June 2024) [access]

Reports:

Cambio climático, desastres y desplazamiento en el Norte de Centroamérica: Análisis de casos en El Salvador y Honduras ((MOVE-LAM, UPeace & RESAMA, Feb. 2024) [access]

International migration from climate-affected areas in Iraq: Exploring the influence of climate change on mobility patterns (IOM, June 2024) [text]

Migraciones Ambientales en el Gran Chaco Americano (ICMPD, Redes Chaco & RESAMA, 2024) [access via LinkedIn) 
- See also earlier related article (scroll to p. 7) and an English translation of that article. 

Planet on the move: Reimagining conservation at the intersection of migration, environmental change and conflict (International Union for Conservation of Nature, June 2024) [access]

Planned relocations of people in the context of the adverse effects of climate change and disasters, UN Doc. no. A/HRC/56/47 (UN Human Rights Council, June 2024) [text]
- See also the submissions that helped inform this report and a summary of a related side event.

Presentación oral con relación a la solicitud de opinión consultiva sobre emergencia climática y derechos humanos por parte de la República de Colombia y la República de Chile (UNHCR, May 2024) [text]
- See also related press release.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Climate-induced migration in the Global South: an in depth analysis," npj Climate Action, 3:47 (June 2024) [open access]

"Escape from Heat, Drought and Extreme Weather: When Local People Have Nothing Left to Survive," Chapter in 3 Degrees More: The Impending Hot Season and How Nature Can Help Us Prevent It (Springer, June 2024) [open access]

"Falling Through the Protection Gaps: Inappropriate Protection of Climate Displaced Persons in the International Refugee Legal Structure," Transnational Human Rights Review, vol. 10 (2023) [full-text]

"'Millions of climate refugees are coming!' A critical media discourse analysis on climate change-induced migrants in Flemish press," Environmental Sociology, Latest Articles, 19 June 2024 [open access]

"Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation," Ambio: A Journal of Environment and Society, Latest Articles, 7 June 2024 [open access]

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