Ekta Kothari submitted this video on January 8, 2010 as an entry to the ExchangesConnect 2009 Video Contest ‘Change Your Climate, Change Our World’. This film highlights the impacts of climate change in the Sundarbans, which is located across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. The rising sea level has already claimed an island […]
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Following the earthquake, there has been much discussion for granting special refugee or immigrant status to those affected in Haiti. Here is a good article on this by TIME as well as another article by the Washington Times. A last one is by a fellow blogger Finn Myrstrad. He made a good post about temporary […] (Munich Re Foundation) The Munich Re Foundation and the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU–EHS) announce the fifth annual Summer Academy on Social Vulnerability. The theme of the 2010 Summer Academy is “Protecting environmental migrants: creating new policy and institutional frameworks”. Applications are required to be submitted online at www.ehs.unu.edu not […] (New York Times) January 3, 2010 – DHAKA, BANGLADESH – Mahe Noor left her village in southern Bangladesh after Cyclone Sidr flattened her family’s home and small market in 2007. Jobless and homeless, she and her husband, Nizam Hawladar, moved to this crowded megalopolis, hoping that they might soon return home. Two years later, they […] The UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen convened last Friday. Unfortunately, due to lack of free (and working) internet access during my visit, I wasn’t able to update the blog as often as I wanted. However, here is a roundup of the second week migration and displacement events that I attended at COP15 as well […] The first of the two-week UN Climate Change Conference has wrapped up. During the climate migration and displacement events, which were well attended, numbers and terminology continued to be discussed and debated. Although it is widely agreed upon that drafting a new treaty to address climate migration and displacement may be the best option, it […] |
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