(IRIN) September 9, 2009 – Many recent studies have put the number of climate-change-related migrants at between 200 million and one billion by 2050, but critics say given insufficient data it is impossible to estimate the number. Some say inflated figures have spurred “fear-of-migration” rhetoric from policymakers and leaders. “It seems unlikely the alarmist predictions of […]
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(IOM) September 4, 2009 – Geneva, Switzerland – IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), have today signed a cooperation agreement pledging closer cooperation between the two organizations in the field of climate change, the environment and migration. kamagra cheapest The agreement between IOM […] The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has recently updated their policy paper entitled Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement: a UNHCR perspective, which was originally released October 2008. The 14-page paper looks at the human side of climate change, particularly the status and protection needs of those who are most directly affected. […] The passing of Refugees International President, Ken Bacon, came just days after the announcement that he and his wife Darcy Bacon, have provided seed money to establish a new center at Refugees International to assist people displaced by global climate change. In the last few months of his life, Mr. Bacon turned his passion towards […] Here is an update for those of you that are following the lead up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) this December. More than 2,000 representatives met at the latest round of the Climate Change Talks, which took place on August 10-14. The committee had the current revised version of the negotiating […] (CNN) August 10, 2009 – A deadly typhoon that slammed into China’s coastal provinces and Taiwan over the weekend has displaced nearly one million people and left dozens missing, state-run media reported Monday. High winds and torrential rain of Typhoon Morakot hit coastal provinces Fujian and Zhejian hardest, and caused the worst flooding in decades […] |
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