by Chanelle Andren | Sep 30, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, The Arctic
Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground Elizabeth Marino Shishmaref, a small hunting community consisting of 600 people on the West Coast of Alaska, is seen as the first victim of anthropogenic climate change. Alaska and the Antarctic have been affected more negatively and...
by Alex Randall | Sep 9, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Resources, Syria
Watch a video version of this briefing The unfolding refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East has left many people asking whether the situation is related to climate change. Several media reports have drawn connections between climate change and the current...
by Alex Randall | Sep 2, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Moving Stories
Alex Randall (UKCCMC) and François Gemenne (University of Versailles / SciencesPo) have authored a chapter for the new book Crime climatique stop, L’appel de la société civile (Stop climate crime, A call from civil society). In the chapter the authors explore how...
by Alex Randall | Sep 1, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Syria
Several prominent commentators have drawn connections between climate change and the rise of ISIS. US Democrat hopeful Martin O’Malley claimed that climate change has lead to the “extreme poverty that has led now to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence”. John...
by Alex Randall | Aug 6, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Conflict, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration, Syria
Are any of the refugees attempting to cross the channel from France to the UK fleeing climate change? The short answer is probably not. But the New Scientist ran an Op Ed arguing that the “chaos” in Calais is “a taste of what a warmer world may bring”. The piece...
by Chanelle Andren | Jul 28, 2015 | Climate Change, Climate Displacement, Climate Migration
Climate change-related migration and infectious disease Celia McMichael – Virulence, 2015 Climate change is an emerging force affecting human migration. But the impacts on of this kind of migration on human health and infectious disease patterns remains...
