The Climate and Migration Coalition
We are an organisation concerned with the rights and welfare of anyone who moves due to the impacts of climate change. Find out more.
What we believe
Climate change will re-shape patterns of migration and displacement. Everyone has the right to move safely and legally. We believe in everyone’s right to move as a way of coping with the worst impacts of climate change.
What we do
We fight for humane and empowering policies that will protect people who move due to the impacts of climate change.
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Our weekly newsletter is a digest of everything you need to know about climate and migration. The briefing keeps you up to date with the latest global events and research from the world of climate-linked migration and conflict.
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The issues: getting started
Find out how climate change is re-shaping migration and displacement – and what this means for people across the world.
Latest news
Climate, migration, neoliberalism
The lecture sketches out a history of neoliberalism, and then looks at how the culmination of this political thinking is reflected in the policies that are being created to address climate change and migration.
More news and resources
Climate change and migration: predictions, politics and policy
Get to grips with one of the defining issues of the 21st Century – how will climate change re-shape migration across the world. Join a free, 100% online course to investigate this essential topic
Event: Migration and displacement at the climate talks
How are migration and displacement being dealt with at the international climate change talks? Find out more with our online event
Event: Climate change and Migration 101. 4 December
Get to grips with the links between climate and the movement of people
Event: hot wars- Climate change, armed conflict and security. 15 November
What do we know about the links between climate change and conflict? Will life on a hotter planet be on with more armed violence?
Briefing: climate change and migration. 24 October, London
An evening briefing exploring the links between climate change and migration. Find out more and book places. 24 October, London
Workshop on climate change and migration. 16 October, London
Workshop on climate change and migration. A half-day session exploring the links between climate change and migration. 16 October, London
Migration is a successful climate adaptation strategy
Governments across the world should legalise and regulate temporary climate migration, rather than try to prevent it.
What we get wrong about migration and climate change
Most of what you know about climate-linked migration is probably wrong. The media usually report on the connections that are most dramatic or tragic, skewing the picture.
Why governments will eventually, reluctantly back migration as climate adaptation
Last year 23 million people were forced from their homes by disasters linked to the weather and climate change. As the planet warms (which inevitably it will) this number will probably go up.
Images on this page
Zaatri refugee camp. EC / ECHO / Dina Baslan. From Flickr. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Kenya, beans. Neil Palmer / CIAT. From Flickr.
Iraqi children look out at the sunset over the Bamarne informal camp for Internally Displaced Persons, in northern Iraq. Andrew McConnell/Panos for DFID. From Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Island and boat. Global Environment Facility / Pacific-IWRM. From Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
The Ganges Delta. From NASA
Bangladesh. Adnan Islam. From Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic
Teafuafou island on the approach into Funfauti atoll, Tuvalu. From Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0)
Families returning to their communities following the flooding in Pakistan.DFID / Russell Watkins. From Flickr. (CC BY 2.0)