by Alex Randall | Jun 28, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
14 million people were uprooted by natural disasters in 2011. 89% of the displacement took place in Asia according to a new report released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the Norwegian Refugee Council. From the press release: The Internal...
by Alex Randall | Jun 19, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Registration is now open for Human Rights, Environmental Change, Migration and Displacement to be held in Vienna on the 20/21 September 2012. Organisers Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights, Vienna Institute for Sustainable Development and International...
by Alex Randall | Jun 7, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched the first edition of their new quarterly newsletter on environmental migration this week. Keen to position themselves at the centre of the international response, the agency announce several new policy and...
by Alex Randall | May 17, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Research and reports IOM’s Dina Ionesco talks about the links between climate change, land degredation and migration. “Dina Ionesco, Policy Officer at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) explains the links between climate change, land...
by Alex Randall | May 14, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, The Arctic
Ilan Kelman is a sharp and dedicated researcher, his native tongue unmistakeably academic. But behind the carefully constructed sentences lies a character of definite moral motivation. I’d call him an activist but I’m not sure he’d identify with such a subjective...
