Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunity:

Call for applications: "Climate Migration Futures: Shaping The Research Agenda for 2050," 2025 CRS Summer Course on Refugee Issues, Toronto, 2-6 June 2025 [info]

- Early bird application deadline is 15 April 2025; final deadline is 25 April 2025.

Short pieces:

4 ways to prevent and manage climate migration (World Economic Forum, March 2025) [text]

How the Global Migration Crackdown Affects Climate Finance (Carnegie Endowment for Intl. Peace, March 2025) [text]

Just Security’s Climate Archive [access]

- There are categories for "Migration and Displacement," "Disasters" and "Humanitarianism."

Supporting states with displacement indicators for disaster risk reduction (IDMC Blog, March 2025) [text]

Reports:

Funding Climate Mobility Projects: Key Players and Strategies for Growth (Migration Policy Institute, March 2025) [text]

Guide for Planning Mass Evacuations in Disasters (CCCM Cluster, 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

- See also related checklist.

Oral update on ExCom Conclusions (2025 theme: Climate action as relevant to the

activities of UNHCR) - NGO Collective Statement/Written Statement (ICVA, March 2025) [text]

"There’s Just No More Land": Community-led Planned Relocation as Last-resort Adaptation to Sea Level Rise in Solomon Islands (Human Rights Watch, March 2025) [access]

Journal articles:

Alternatives Humanitaires = Humanitarian Alternatives, no. 28 (March 2025)  [Eng. full-text] [Fr. full-text]

- Issue theme is "The Crisis of the Humanitarian Action in the Age of Climate Change."

"Behavioral savings sessions increase the pursuit of solar products among refugees in Uganda," npj Climate Action, 4:32 (March 2025) [open access]

Humanitarian Exchange, no. 86 (March 2025) [full-text]

- Issue theme is "Climate change adaptations in humanitarian programming."

Journal of Internal Displacement, vol. 15, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

- Special issue on "Climate Change and Environmental Displacement."

"Prioritizing involuntary immobility in climate policy and disaster planning," Nature Communications, 16:2581 (March 2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Climate Change, Migration & Conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 18 March 2025 [access]

Climate Refugees: The Fabrication of a Migration Threat, 26 March 2025 [access]

International Protection in the Context of Climate Change in Africa, 27 Feb. 2025 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (10 March 2025)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters

Opportunities:

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]

- Contributions sought for a themed issue on "Climate crisis and displacement: from commitment to action." Submission deadline is 25 October 2021.

CFP: Intervention [info]

- Contributions sought for a special section on "Mental health and psychosocial support and the global climate crisis." Submission deadline is 31 October 2021.

Blog posts & press:

Climate mobility in Africa: Taking the next steps for research and collaboration (Kaldor Centre, June 2021) [text]

Displaced Somalis and refugees struggle to recover as climate change brings new threats (UNHCR, Aug. 2021) [text]

Forced displacement and (im)mobility: what’s climate change got to do with it? (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2021) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Climate and Migration in East and the Horn of Africa: Spatial Analysis of Migrants’ Flows Data (IOM & Harvard Univ., Aug. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

*"Climate Displacement and the Legal Gymnastics of Justice: Is It All Political?," Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 35, no. 2 (2021) [free full-text]

"Climate Mobility and Development Cooperation," Population and Environment, Latest Articles, 17 July 2021 [open access]

"Deciphering Impacts and Human Responses to a Changing Climate in East Africa," Frontiers in Climate, 3 Aug. 2021 [open access]

- See also related press release and Twitter thread that comments on the article's findings.

In the Same Canoe: Building the Case for a Regional Harmonisation of Approaches to Humanitarian Entry and Stay in ‘Our Sea of Islands’ (Platform on Disaster Displacement, March 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the Pacific.

Risk Profile: Sudden-Onset Hazards and the Risk of Future Displacement in … (Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, July 2021)

- Solomon Islands

- Tonga

- Vanuatu

The State of Production, Dissemination, and Use of Disaster-Related Statistics in Selected Countries in Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP, July 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Task Force Report to the President on the Climate Crisis and Global Migration: A Pathway to Protection for People on the Move (Refugees International, July 2021) [text]

- See also related blog post.

Multimedia/resources:

What a changing climate means for human mobility in the Pacific, 16 June 2021 [access]

- Follow link for video recording.

Workshop series: Developing a Research and Policy Agenda for Addressing Displacement and Migration in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change in Africa [access]

- This series took place between April & July 2021. Video recordings are available for the opening and closing plenaries, and background documents/resources have been posted for the various thematic working group sessions.

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Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Disasters (25 June 2021)

Thematic Focus: Climate Change & Displacement

News:

"South Pacific Islander Loses Climate Change Asylum Plea in New Zealand," Wired, 27 Nov. 2013 [text]
 - Here's a copy of the decision.  See also earlier related post on "Refugee Claims based on Climate Change."

Publications:

"Acclimating to Climate Change: Filling the International Policy Void for Environmentally Displaced People," Houston Journal of International Law, vol. 35, no. 2 (2013) [full-text]

Climate Change-related Displacement: What Scope for Protection under Refugee and Human Rights Law?, London, 14 Nov. 2013 [info]
- See slides from one of the presenters.

Climate-threatened Solomon Islanders Prepare for Evacuation (Thomson Reuters Foundation, Nov. 2013) [text]

Sinking Hopes? Climate Change Refugees in New Zealand (Oxford Human Rights Hub, Nov. 2013) [text]
- References AF (Kiribati) [2013] NZIPT 800413.

Update from COP19: Displacement Sidelined as Negotiations Bottleneck around Money Talk (IDMC Blog, Nov. 2013) [text]

Why Should Governments Negotiating on Climate Change Care about Displacement? (IDMC Blog, Nov. 2013) [text]


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