Climate change, environmental degradation and migration: addressing vulnerabilities and harnessing opportunities
This book aims at raising the awareness for dialogue on environment and migration at the inter-governmental scale. It addresses practical applications that could be adopted by policy-makers or applied by institutions, including tools which could be further developed and/or adapted in the case of environmentally-driven forced migration within the context of development induced displacement and resettlement.
This publication includes the report of a conference held on February 19 2008, in Geneva. The event was co-hosted by the Greek Chairmanship of the Human Security Network (HSN) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The book comprises four main elements: Parts I, II, III and IV contain the report of the Conference, which is based on the presentations and discussions in Greek, English, French and Spanish respectively. The Annex includes the Conference agenda in English.
This book is published with the sponsorship of the Government of Greece, in close coordination with the Permanent Mission of Greece to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Switzerland under the guidance of the Permanent Representative, Ambassador Franciscos Verros and the assistance of Marianna Papadopoulou, Minister Counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Greece. It was prepared under the overall supervision of Philippe Boncour, Head, International Dialogue on Migration Division, Migration Policy and Research Department (MPRD), IOM.