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Displaying 15 of about 521 resultsThis study investigates the intricate nexus between climate change, conflicts, and human mobility in the Moyale-Moyale Borderlands and in most cross-border pastoral areas in the region. The Moyale-Moyale Borderlands, situated between northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, represent a unique confluence of challenges associated with climate change, human m…
As the international community gathers in the United Arab Emirates for COP28, the converging effects of the climate crisis, violent conflicts, and geopolitical upheaval are increasingly clear. In many countries, they are raising critical, and at times life-threatening, challenges for refugees and their host communities. How best can the international co…
The First Street Foundation published new research in the journal Nature-Communications, which integrates observed historic trends of population change, along with flood risk information, to uncover climate migration trends that are occurring in many high flood risk areas across the country. The research highlights the emergence of “Climate Abandonment…
The recent climate migration deal signed by Australia and Tuvalu in November 2023 has been touted as providing a “lifeline” to the people of the South Pacific nation who face existential threats from rising sea levels and climate change.The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union treaty is the world’s first bilateral agreement on climate mobility. Under the tre…
This policy brief examines the connections between climate change, peoples’ mobility and human rights in the Mekong Region. A particular focus is on the slow environmental change dimensions of climate change, such as sea level rise and changing seasonal weather patterns, that are shaping peoples’ mobility in less recognized ways. Slow onset processes in…
This Policy Brief (PB) seeks to explore the extent to which the two processes (migration and climate change) are connected.). This PB focuses on induced or voluntary climate change migration and focuses on international migration mostly, but not entirely, from Pacific Island locations to countries on the Pacific Rim. This PB is the third in a series of…
Across the world, people are already using migration as a way of coping with climate change. Climate change is intensifying disasters like droughts, and individuals are relocating to protect their lives and livelihoods. Governments negotiating at COP must acknowledge this new reality. By making migration safer, more people are enabled to use it as a mea…
This paper draws upon the results of a recent study to examine the drivers, patterns, and impacts of internal displacement linked with disasters in the greater Port Vila area and surrounding communities. Vanuatu has the world’s highest disaster risk and its capital, Port Vila, has been ranked the world’s most exposed city to natural hazards. C…
This paper draws upon recent research in Ba Town to examine the drivers, patterns, and impacts of internal displacement linked with disasters. Disasters have triggered around 153,000 displacements in Fiji, since IDMC started systematically collecting data in 2008. Rapid urbanisation, particularly the growth of informal settlements, is increasing ex…
This paper provides an understanding of what drives migration, the patterns associated with it, its issues and consequences, and provide broader policy recommendations - to use social protection programme to provide safety net to migrants, both at source for family members staying back and at destination.
There are several aspects of climate-induced sh…
Innovative partnerships that invite all voices result in solutions for climate adaptation that vulnerable communities want and need.
From the refugees in the Bay of Bengal to the residents of Nairobi’s slums, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly visible. So too is the capacity for these communities to play a role in co-developing inn…
In this study, the authors investigate (i) human migration flows and the influence of climate hazards on these flows and (ii) the benefits and dis-benefits of migration in supporting climate change adaptation, from the perspective of migrants (personal factors and intervening obstacles), areas of origin, and areas of destination. They do so by combining…
Thousands of people from Central America traveled through Mexico bound for the United States while world leaders met at COP26. Forced migration from Central America is driven by violence, corruption, lack of opportunity, and—increasingly—climate change. The concurrence of this migration event with COP26 underlines the growing reality that…
Colombian bill recognizing those displaced by climate-fueled disasters, from floods to drought, could be first for Latin America.Colombia debates bill on displaced by climate changeDraft law is first of its kind in Latin America, CaribbeanClimate migrants globally lack legal protection and rightsBOGOTA - People in Colombia who are uprooted within the co…
El estudio ofrece un análisis de los estándares y recomendaciones del Sistema Interamericano de Derechos Humanos y del Sistema Universal de Derechos Humanos, relacionados con la movilidad humana asociada con el cambio climático y los desastres. Ofrece, también, un análisis de los principales eventos inductores y las dinámicas de la movilidad en la regió…