15 May 2025

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Webinar: Legal Tools for a Changing Climate [info]
- Will be held on different dates based on region; includes "a live walkthrough of the Climate Mobility Case Database [see below] and Toolkit."

Short pieces:

Disasters Displaced a Record 46 Million People Last Year (Scientific American, May 2025) [text]

Understanding climate migration through a racial justice lens: Haiti as a quintessential example (Open Global Rights, May 2025) [text]

Reports: 

At the mercy of the climate: the impact of climate change on IDPs in Yemen (Holm Akhdar Environmental Consultancy, Feb. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Climate refugees: Addressing climate-induced massive migration before it happens (Greek Council for Refugees & World Wide Fund For Nature, July 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- Focuses on Europe.

Human Mobility in the Context of Climate Change, Environmental Degradation and Disaster Risks (IOM, 2025) [text]
- Focuses on Jordan.

The Impacts of USAID Cuts: Less Climate Resilience, More Forced Displacement (Refugees International, April 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

"Climate Displacement Can Permanently Hamper Children’s Education and Imperil Future Prospects," Migration Information Source, 7 May 2025 [text]

"From drought to displacement: Assessing the impacts of climate change on conflict and forced migration in West Africa's Sahel Region," Journal of Climate Change and Health, vol. 23 (May-June 2025) [open access]

"Humanitarian management of drought needs better water security data," Disasters, vol. 49, no. 3 (July 2025) [open access]
- Focuses on the Horn of Africa.

"In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes," American Political Science Review, vol. 118, no. 4 (Nov. 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on the US.

"Life in Transition: A Study of Climate Migrants' Adaptation and Perceptions in Urban Slums and Rural Villages in Bangladesh," Comparative Sociology, vol. 24, no. 2 (April 2025) [ResearchGate]

"Migrants’ perspectives on environmental change and translocal practices in Morocco, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo," Migration Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (June 2025) [open access]

Resource:

Climate Mobility Case Database (Global Strategic Litigation Council, Earth Refuge, Raoul Wallenberg Institute & Zolberg Institute for Migration & Mobility) [access]
- A "free-to-access global database collating
and summarising judicial decisions concerning all forms of internal and cross border
climate-related (im)mobility." Officially launched during this event.

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