14 October 2024

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

Side event: Protection in Law and Practice: Regional and Global Engagement on Displacement in the Context of Climate Change, Geneva, 15 October 2024 [info]
- Taking place during EXCOM's 75th session.

Seminar: Climate Change, Displacement and Gender, Online, 28 October 2024 [info]

Side event: Advancing the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters: Exploring Multi-stakeholder Perspectives, Practice Insights and Legal Frameworks, Geneva, 28 October 2024 [info]
- Taking place during the RCRC's 34th conference.

Side event: People on the Move in a Changing Climate: Locally Led Action, Geneva, 29 October 2024 [info]
- Taking place during the RCRC's 34th conference.

Short pieces:

Desplazamiento como consecuencia del cambio climático en Colombia: escenarios de vulneración de derechos humanos que exige la atención integral del Estado (Departamento de Derecho del Medio Ambiente Blog, Sept. 2024) [text]

Extreme weather is disrupting lives in southern Africa: new policies are needed to keep the peace (The Conversation, Oct. 2024) [text]

Uganda’s struggles resettling climate-displaced communities (African Arguments, Oct. 2024 [text]

Reports:

Briefing Note: Anticipatory Action: An innovative tool at the intersection of disaster risk reduction and humanitarian response (OCHA & UNDRR, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Enduring Change: A Data Review of Firsthand Accounts of Climate Mobility Impacts (International Refugee Assistance Project et al., Sept. 2024) [access]
- Focuses on the US.

Engaging Local Communities for More Effective Climate Mobility Programming (Migration Policy Institute, Oct. 2024) [text]

Flood and Drought Displacement Risk in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan (HABITABLE Project, July 2024; posted Oct. 2024) [text via IDMC]

*Harnessing Development Financing for Solutions to Displacement in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific (IDMC & ADB, Oct. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Leveraging Collective Intelligence Methods: Participatory Mapping and Citizen-Generated Data to Address Environmental Degradation and Displacement - A Burundi Case Study (IOM & Joint IDP Profiling Service, Sept. 2024) [text]
- A French version is also available.

Mapping human mobility in national and regional disaster risk reduction strategies and related instruments (Platform on Disaster Displacement, UNHCR & UNDRR, Oct. 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for report and summary.

Multimedia:

How We Talk about Climate Migration Shapes Treatment of “Climate Refugees," 4 Oct. 2024 [access]

*UPDATED

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