by Alex Randall | Sep 23, 2015 | Climate Migration
We were very pleased to be invited to present at the International Organization for Migration’s consultations in Geneva last week. This event was designed to give a voice to civil society organisations working on migration and displacement. We spoke in the session...
by Alex Randall | Sep 14, 2015 | Climate Migration, Europe / Med
Report: Europe’s Migration Policies in Crisis Al Jazeera Centre for Studies Heinrich Matthee Media attention has lately focused on the migration crisis and boats across the Mediterranean. These migrants are classified as being irregular or illegal migrants who do not...
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 9, 2015 | Climate Migration
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 | 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...
