Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Short pieces:

3 ways nature-based solutions are tackling climate displacement in the Global South (WEF Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

4 key facts about climate change and human migration (Stanford Univ., Sept. 2025) [text]

Climate disasters aren’t natural – and calling them that makes things worse (The Interpreter Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Climate Mobility in India: A Confused Understanding of Climate Refugees, Displacement, and Mobility (RLI Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

Foregrounding Displacement in the Treaty on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters (EJIL: Talk Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

Sparks of Hope amid Climate Uncertainty: Migration and Changing Rural Landscapes in the Mid-hills of Nepal (RID Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

What Can We Learn from Tuvalu’s Planned Climate Migration? (DevelopmentAid, Sept. 2025) [text]

Why people displaced by conflict are particularly vulnerable to climate risks (The Conversation, Sept. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate Chains: Mapping the Relationship between Climate, Trafficking in Persons and Building Resilience (International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Ethiopia and the Philippines.

Climate Change and Migration (Cairo University & International Organization for Migration, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- "Draws on case studies from Bangladesh, Mexico and Morocco, with special emphasis on Egypt."

"The climate exodus: a multivariate analysis of migration drivers in northern Bangladesh," Environmental Research: Climate, vol. 4, no. 4 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

"Climate induced migration and internal displacement in rural India," Discover Environment, 3:169 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

Climate Terminology Bank: Bibliography of Climate Definitions in Uganda’s Refugee Response (U-Learn, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Climate-induced migration and climate immobility in Ghana: A socio-ecological mixed method study," Journal of Migration and Health, vol. 12 (2025) [open access] 

‘Navigating injustice’: Climate displacement from the Pacific Islands of Tuvalu and Kiribati to Aotearoa New Zealand (Amnesty International, Oct. 2025) [access]

- See also related Guardian article.

No Safe Ground: Gaza’s Displaced at the Edge of Climate and Conflict (SARI Global, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Understanding relationships among climate change, conflict, migration/displacement and health in humanitarian settings: a scoping review," Conflict and Health, 19:73 (Oct. 2025) [open access]

*"Vulnerabilities of climate change-induced displacement and migration in South Asia," Discover Global Society, 3:115 (Sept. 2025) [open access]

*UPDATED

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (7 Sept. 2025)