Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Webinar: Women, migration and climate change - local challenges and global perspectives, 3 September 2024 [info]

Short pieces:

Climate Change, Injustice, and Displacement: Unraveling the Nexus (Pathfinders Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Expert Opinion: How can we address the nexus of climate change, migration, and infectious diseases? (Univ. of Oxford, Aug. 2024) [text]

Explainer: Cruz Galicia v. Garland on climate-related asylum (CGRS, July 2024) [text]

- Focuses on the US. See also related factsheet. 

New risk index to predict climate displacement (Sydney Environment Inst., July 2024) [text]

Refugees without Recognition: Climate Change and Ecological and Gender Inequality (EJIL: Talk Blog, Aug. 2024) [text]

Reports:

Are ‘Climate Refugees’ Compatible with the 1951 Refugee Convention? (E-International Relations, Aug. 2024) [text]

Climate change, human mobility, and conflict and fragility: An examination of dominant policy narratives - Honduras (CGIAR, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Displacement as a Development Issue: Enabling Public Policy to Unlock Climate Finance in Asia and the Pacific (Center for Global Development, July 2024) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Disrupted Lives - Climate Crisis and Internal Displacement: A Case Study of Sumel District, Iraq (CARE, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

How the Cartagena +40 Process Can Improve Protection for Cross-Border Climate Displacement (Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, July 2024) [text]

- See also Spanish version.

*Promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change: Note by the Secretary-General, UN Doc. No. A/79/176 (UN General Assembly, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles:

“Climate Refugee and International Law,” Law and Interscience Journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Developing regional migration, environment and climate change policy frameworks for action: the case of the Kampala Ministerial Declaration," Migration Policy Practice, vol. XIII, no. 2 (July 2024) [open access]

- Scroll to p. 35

"'Environmental Refugees': Common Patterns Between Climate Change and Migration Dynamics," Law and Interscience Journal, vol. 3, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

"Framing Migration as Adaptation: IOM’s Aspirations to Manage Climate Migration," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 24 June 2024 [open access]

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (17 July 2024)