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Displaying 15 of about 76 resultsPeople from nations vulnerable to climate change - like the Marshall Islands and Honduras - are helping the United States to better prepare for its impacts.
• Immigrants in United States seen as having key community role
• Nonprofits provide training and jobs, and deliver local programs
• Migration set to rise globally as climate change worsens
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This report summarizes the outcomes and technical discussions of the first Nansen Initiative Regional Consultation that took place from 21–24 May 2013 on Rarotonga, Cook Islands: “Human Mobility, Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific”.
The overall objective of the Pacific Consultation was to identify specific challenges facing t…
This publication is part of a multi-partner project whose overall aim is to address a legal gap regarding cross-border displacement in the context of disasters. The project seeks to:
increase the understanding of states and relevant actors in the international community about displacement related to disasters and climate change;
equip them…
Les objectifs de ce projet étaient d’examiner comment le problème global des migrations environnementales/climatiques est défini au sein des institutions internationales, comment la question des migrations est intégrée au niveau local, soit comme stratégie spontanée d’adaptation, soit comme enjeu d’action publique et enfin quel écart sépare l’adaptation…
This study aims to clarify the extent to which Marshallese people are already migrating because of climate change, and the role affected ecosystem services play in their migration decisions. The research also aims to better understand the effects of this migration on migrants themselves, among communities in the RMI (in the capital of Majuro, and on Mej…
By Becky Alexis-Martin, Lecturer at the Manchester Metropolitan University; James Dyke, Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter; Jonathon Turnbull, PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge; and Stephanie Malin, Associate Professor at Colorado State University
The evidence of the climate crisis is now undeniable. But state responses to…
This national assessment report brings together available evidence on the climate change, environment and migration nexus in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The aim of the report is twofold, such that: (a) it maps the relationship between migration, environment and climate change by looking at human mobility due to environmental change; and (b) it exa…
By Joydeep Gupta
As climate change leads to the flooding of whole countries, a climate passport may allow the most distressed to settle in countries that have been largely responsible for the impact
Nearly half a million people lost their countries during World War 1 and had to use the Nansen Passport till they could get citizenship of…
This report presents the findings of a survey and qualitative interviews conducted to investigate to what extent migration can be seen an adaptation strategy to environmental and climate change in the country.
The survey reveals that migration is associated with positive impacts on income and employment levels and, to a lesser extent, with trade and in…
Among all the statistics about temperature increase, polar melting and sea level rise associated with a warming world, the impact on hundreds of millions of people forced to leave their homes due to climate change is often not fully considered.
Kieran Cooke of the Climate News Network explores the issues and reports on a new International Organisation…
The estimated number of children displaced by storms and flooding in the Caribbean islands* saw a six-fold increase in the past five years, a new UNICEF report said today.
Part of UNICEF’s Child Alert series, ‘Children Uprooted in the Caribbean: How stronger hurricanes linked to a changing climate are driving child displacement’ found that an…
This policy aims to help guide emergency and development planners to work with the Government of Vanuatu to address the needs of all communities affected by displacement. The policy also aims to enable government ministries to work together to provide protections for people at each stage of the displacement cycle, with the goal of achieving durable…
This technical paper presents the initial assessment results of the risk of displacement associated with disasters and climate change in the Marshall Islands. Disaster displacement is one of the world's biggest humanitarian and sustainable development challenges, and climate change and urbanisation serve to aggravate the phenomenon. The i…
This technical paper presents the initial results of our efforts to assess the risk of displacement associated with disasters and climate change in the Solomon Islands. It also recognises that relocation is an appropriate longterm adaptation strategy, as envisaged in the country’s national climate change policy for 2012 to 2017. Disaster displaceme…
The influence of climate change and perceptions of it on people’s migration decisions has received significant prominence, especially for people living on low-lying islands. To contribute to this literature, this paper uses Maldives as a case study for exploring the research question: How does climate change influence or not influence people’s migration…