Climate, migration and flooding: resources
Climate change threatens to alter patterns of flooding across the world, and we can expect this to alter patterns of migration and displacement in turn. Flooding already displaced thousands of people every year, and we can expect the figures to increase as climate change begins to change the severity and frequency of floods.
Climate, migration and flooding: resources
Drought and deserification could become a major driver of migration and displacement. As climate change increases the severity and length of droughts, we can expect these patterns of human movement to change too. Our resources and video examine the complex links between climate, drought and the movement of people.
Six things governments should do about hurricane displacement right now
How should we respond to climate-driven hurricane displacement? What new policies do we need to protect people who are forced to move.
Climate, migration and flooding: resources
Six things governments should do about hurricane displacement right now
How should we respond to climate-driven hurricane displacement? What new policies do we need to protect people who are forced to move.
Video: understanding disasters, displacement and climate
A series of powerful disasters have left many asking about the role of climate change. This short briefing looks at how climate change interacts with other forces to create increased displacement.
Placing climate change amongst the causes of disasters
Debates about whether climate change has played a role in a particular disaster tend to polarise very quickly. This post is an attempt to place climate change amongst the forces that create displacement and chaos after disasters.
Climate change and migration – forced and voluntary movement
Climate change will create forced and voluntary migration. These are two very different things. Get to grips with why this matters.
Climate-linked migration: law and rights
People who move due to climate change are in a legal limbo. Their rights and legal status are not clear. Find out why. Read and watch next... More videos
Paddington: a bear crossing borders
The Paddington Bear stories and film are modern fables about the treatment of refugees. The Paddington film raises important questions about the legal status of people fleeing disasters, and makes a powerful case for the humane treatment of all migrants.
The Task Force on Displacement: the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place
The Task Force on Displacement: The pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place Dr. Sarah Louise Nash Dr. Sarah Louise Nash is 2016/17 Mercator-IPC Fellow at Istanbul Policy Center, Sabanci University and Associated Postdoctoral Researcher in the research group...
Climate change driving migration into China’s vulnerable cities
Climate change driving migration into China’s vulnerable cities Alex Randall Alex is programme manager of the Climate and Migration Coalition Natural disasters are displacing record numbers of urban Chinese, but millions are migrating into the same cities to escape...
Mobile network data provide new insights on climate change and migration
Using mobile network data to understand climate change and migration David Wrathall & Xin Lu David Wrathall investigates climate extremes and human migration with Flowminder and United Nations University. Xin Lu is co-founder and chief analyst at Flowminder. His...
Forced migration and the climate change negotiations
Phillip Warren The notion that climate change will cause extensive and largely unprecedented human migration likely comes as no surprise to readers of this blog. Rising seas, changing weather patterns, and increasing frequency and intensity of severe weather events...
Moving Stories: Pakistan. The voices of people who moved during flooding
This article was produced as part of our Moving Stories project. “I go to get registered [as an IDP] and they dismiss me. I don't want to live here. I don't want my children out on the streets. In my village I have little but I look after my family. They throw food at...
Solomon Islands relocation, flooding in Pakistan, more on New Zealand
Get our round up in your inbox. Sign up on the front page. Expert opinions of the New Zealand “climate refugee” court case We asked a group of legal and policy expert for their view on the recent court case that grabbed media headlines. "The case is far more...
