11 August 2025

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

CFP: Human mobility and environmental change [info]
- Submissions to this thematic collection can be made any of five participating journals. The deadline is 7 September 2025.

4th Online Course on Climate Change and Forced Displacement, 13 October–7 November 2025 [info]
- Apply by 15 September 2025.

Short pieces:

The Inter-American Court’s Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights: A Win for Climate-Displaced Persons? (EJIL: Talk Blog, July 2025) [text]

NIPA+10: A Decade of Progress Towards Better Protection for People Displaced in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change (Platform on Disaster Displacement, July 2025) [text]

Permanent Temporariness and Climate Outsiders: Refugee Camps as Ecological Sacrifice Zones in the MENA Region (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, July 2025) [text]

A Single Paragraph’s Promise: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and the Understated Question of Human Displacement (Verfassungsblog, July 2025) [text]

Reports:

Health system strengthening interventions to improve the health of displaced and migrant populations in the context of climate change (WHO, July 2025) [text]

Intersecting Drivers of Iraqi Emigration: Security, Economy and Environmental Stressors (IOM, July 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

'That Suffering Haunts Me Even Here’: The Struggle for Human Rights of the Antandroy People Displaced by Climate Change from Southern Madagascar (Amnesty International, July 2025) [access]
- Also available in French.

Journal articles:

"Climate Migration, Moral Dilemmas, and Moral Motivation," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 39, no. 1 (Spring 2025) [open access]

"Climate Migration in the Horn of Africa: A Study of the Relationship between Climate Change, Migration, and Adaptation Strategies among Pastoral Communities," Journal of the Kenya National Commission for UNESCO, vol. 5, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"International Protection for People Displaced across Borders in the Context of Climate Change and Disasters: A Practical Toolkit - Overview," International Journal of Refugee Law, Advance Articles,  5 Aug. 2025 [free full-text]

Questions of International Law (July 2025) [open access]
- Zoom Out on "Invisible in Law: Environmental and Climate Migrants and the Gap in International Protection," with three contributions available online and one forthcoming.

"Understanding Vulnerability to Natural Hazards of Displaced Persons in Cox’s Bazar," Land, vol. 14, no. 7 (July 2025) [open access]

"When boundaries are blurred: infrastructure needs in support of the climate displaced," Frontiers in Climate, 29 May 2025 [open access]

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