by Hannah | 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 Hannah | 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 Hannah | 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...
by Hannah | Apr 27, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Reports and research People and Planet: The Royal Society Science Policy Centre report 01a/12 Population Distribution, Migration and Climate Change in Australia: An Exploration by Graeme Hugo for the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) The...
by Hannah | Apr 20, 2012 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Sea level rise
Last month, the Telegraph reported that the Kiribati Cabinet was negotiating a land deal with Fiji to begin relocating its population. The majority of atolls and islands that make up the Republic lie just 2m above sea level. A severe and in its immediacy unique...