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Displaying 25 of about 25 resultsThis study points at the resourcefulness and resilience of older people that were affected by the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. It shows the importance of emergency preparedness at the personal, community and institutional level. Finally, it makes recommendations that cover evacuation, evacuation centres, temporary accommodation and recovery and re…
This paper addresses the vulnerability of Bangladesh to the impacts of climate change and the need to face a challenge of this magnitude through the implementation of effective policies to protect climate displaced persons. It highlights the 18 different policies, acts, laws and programmes relevant to climate displacement in Bangladesh and to the rehab…
London – Planning for climate-related migration - from training likely migrants in new job skills to policies for integrating them into cities where most head - will help determine whether migration can be an adaptive response to climate change or is an unavoidable consequence of it, experts said on Wednesday.
But even with the best plans, some climate…
Can the United Nations help to protect people seeking safety abroad if their homes and jobs are destroyed by prolonged drought, rising sea levels or other climate change-related phenomena in the same way as if they were displaced by war or human rights abuses? The short answer, today anyway, is no.
The more considered – and thus far, thorny – response…
Kabul - Last year, Afghanistan’s Ghor Province lost thousands of its inhabitants. Many fled due to conflict, but others fled due to a more subtle threat: drought.
An estimated three-quarters of the population was affected when rain-fed crop harvests were destroyed due to the dry spell (and flash floods) that hit during the planting season, according to…
These principles take into consideration that individual communities are expected to play a fundamental role in organising themselves and outlining their future needs in regards to a looming – or ever present – climate displacement threat.
The Peninsula principles acknowledge that these communities must come forward with their claims when it comes to c…
Densely populated and low-lying, Bangladesh is one of the most climate-vulnerable countries in the world. How can millions of Bangladeshis protect their families and incomes from rising sea levels, erratic rainfall and temperature extremes? That’s the topic of a new film by tve: Television Trust for the Environment, commissioned by CDKN. The filmmakers…
By Alex Randall
New Zealand just refused asylum to Ioana Teitiota. He claimed that climate change had made returning to Kiribati impossible.
Globally, disasters have affected millions of people. Many will want to remain overseas, or move abroad as climate change impacts make their lives harder. But the asylum system will be a fruitless way of providin…
By Megan Rowling
Lima - Countries vulnerable to extreme weather and rising seas should follow the example of small Pacific island states like Kiribati, and work out how to relocate threatened communities if there is no alternative, experts said at U.N. climate talks in Lima.
"We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to…
By Catherine Wilson
Sydney (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Many small Pacific Island states on the frontline of sea level rise and disaster threats are facing a shortage of the scientists, skilled professionals and technical experts they need to put in place effective climate change policies and adaptation projects.
"Climate change and disaster risk ma…