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Displaying 105 of about 177 resultsBackground: Despite an increase in scholarly and policy interest regarding the impacts of environmental change on migration, empirical knowledge in the field remains varied, patchy, and limited. Generalised discourse on environmental migration frequently oversimplifies the complex channels through which environmental change influences the migration proc…
IDMC published in March 2019 the first estimates of the economic impact of internal displacement at the global level, amounting to $13 billion per year of displacement. This report applies the same methodology to all sub-Saharan African countries affected by internal displacement for which data was available: Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Repu…
The concept of Trapped Populations has until date mainly referred to people ‘trapped’ in environmentally high-risk rural areas due to economic constraints. This article attempts to widen our understanding of the concept by investigating climate-induced socio-psychological immobility and its link to Internally Displaced People’s (IDPs) wellbeing in a slu…
This paper tests the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder in a panel of large cities in developing countries. The authors focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into large Asian and sub-Saharan African cities. The paper tests this hypothesis using a novel dataset on floods—distinguishing those tha…
The study presents a model of human migration that considers not just economic factors but also human behavior and migration.
Rising sea levels and more powerful cyclonic storms, phenomena driven by the warming of oceans due to climate change, puts at immediate or potential risk an estimated 680 million people living in low-lying coastal zones (a numbe…
Bangladesh has been coping with the inflow of 1.1 million Displaced Rohingya People (DRP) in Cox’s Bazar, which is vulnerable to extreme climate events and under immense strain on the existing resources.
As part of the World Bank’s Emergency Multi-Sector Rohingya Crisis Response Project (EMCRP), the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), wil…
By Climate Justice Resilience Fund
In the next few decades Bangladesh is likely to lose more than 10 percent of its land to the sea, and 18 million people could lose their livelihoods and homes.
As a result, many families must relocate from coastal areas. While some people have means to resettle elsewhere, the most vulnerable have nowhere t…
by Emmanuel Come Mugisha & Nasra Bishumba
The stretch from La Palisse Nyandugu, through Cumi na Gatanu and Cumi n’Icyenda, along the Kigali-Kayonza highway, will never be the same. Since Saturday, the small residential houses and shops that lined the road are being razed by the City of Kigali, in a move authorities say is aimed…
In the past few months many parts of the Volta Basin have been hit by heavy rainfall, causing floods which have displaced thousands of people and led to loss of life and livelihoods. Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire and Benin have all been impacted.
In order to boost resilience to such extreme events, WMO is an implementing partner in the Volta…
UK aid is supporting an early warning system in Cox’s Bazaar which detects disease outbreaks and prompts targeted, rapid responses by health workers
The life-saving early warning system gathers information on new disease cases across 168 health centres in Cox’s Bazaar and uses an innovative mobile app to allow experts to identify and track potentially…
This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Low rainfall in parts of southeast Bangladesh’s Teknaf peninsula means that UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and partners are expecting in the next 10-12 days to begin trucking wat…
Faced with drinking, bathing in and working in saltier water as a result of climate change, women are facing new health threats
By Manipadma Jena
Dripping wet and looking exhausted, Shompa Pal winces as she walks into her home, holding tightly to a knot at the end of her saree.
From it she extracts and lays out to dry a soggy 100 rupee note, her earn…
By Alexandra Bilak
Sitting on a plastic chair inside a small brick house in Cox’s Bazar, the light from the evening sun shining on his tired face, 70 year-old Mahmud recalls the day when a five-metre tidal wave engulfed his home and land on Kutubdia island, killing his wife and two sons. The '1991 cyclone' was one of the deadliest tropical cyclone…
By AZM Anas
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The depleted villages of Bangladesh’s northeast offer a real-time glimpse of how dire climate displacement warnings are becoming a reality: village by village; family by family.
Facing year-on-year crop loss and unpredictable weather, households here have been moving to the cities in droves – giving up on the rice farming that has s…
By Tom Miles
A total of 275,000 people have been displaced by drought in western Afghanistan - 52,000 more than the number uprooted by conflict this year - with over two million threatened by the effects of water shortages, the United Nations said.
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Afghanistan, a country where nearly 20 million people rely on farming, has suffered a 45 per…