Report: Women Who Go, Women Who Stay: Reactions to Climate Change in Mexico

We’re a little slow on the unveiling of this, but Heinrich Boll Stiftung released a publication in November 2010 on the gendered migration responses of communities in Chiapas called “

Jon Barnett: Climate Adaptation Not Just Building Infrastructure, But Expanding Options

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFd4hpSBPfw&feature=youtu.be “I think it’s appropriate to think about [climate change] adaptation or investments in adaptation as investments to open up the range of choices available to people to deal with an uncertain future,” said Jon Barnett, associate professor of geography at the University of Melbourne, in an interview with ECSP. “In some circumstances it might […]

New Report: Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict

The Center for American Progress just released a report on “Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Addressing Complex C risis Scenarios in the 21st Century.” It’s the first ever from the left-leaning think tank on climate and migration. From the summary: In this paper and the reports to follow, we will discuss regional case studies in […]

New Study: "Climate Refugees" Legal and Policy Responses to Environmentally Induced Migration

The European Parliament’s Policy Department of Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs has put out a study on “Climate Refugees: ” Legal and Policy Responses to Environmentally Induced Migration. This is a welcome addition to the already rife discourse on potential legal and policy responses for environmentally-induced migrants. Specifically, according to the abstract, the study “sets […]

News: Preparation for Climate Displacement Too Slow, Experts Say

(AlertNet) December 5, 2011 – Climate impacts such as worsening droughts, flooding, storm surges and sea level rise could displace tens of mill ions of people by mid-century, scientists predict. But national and international rules governing resettlement of forced environmental migrants, and how they will be treated under the law, remain at a worryingly early […]

Statement of the Global Migration Group on the Impact of Climate Migration

The Global Migration Group (GMG) is an inter-agency group bringing together 16 agencies (14 United Nations agencies, the World Bank, and the International Organization for Migration) to promote the application of relevant international instruments an Marketing Online With Alex Mandossian d norms relating to migration, and to encourage the adoption of more coherent, comprehensive and […]