(The Guardian) May 11, 2011 – Imagine if the world acted only when 100% scientific proof was in place. We would still be insulating buildings with cancer-causing asbestos and fuelling cars with lead additives, damaging babies’ brains. The circulation in fridges would also be done by chemicals that, by thinning the Earth’s protective ozone layer, […]
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(The Ecologist) April 18, 2011 – While scientists and the international community endlessly debate and argue, millions of Bangladeshi citizens have already been displaced by climate change – for them the worst-case ‘nightmare’ climate scenario is already real Climate displacement has arrived without mercy in Bangladesh. In Khulna district alone, some 60,000 Bangladeshi citizens have […] (Spiegel) April 18, 2011 – It was a dramatic prediction that was widely picked up by the world’s media. In 2005, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations University declared that 50 million people could become environmental refugees by 2010, fleeing the effects of climate change. But now the UN is distancing […] UNHCR organized an expert roundtable on climate change and displacement, which was held in Bellagio, Italy, from 22 to 25 February 2011, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Main messages to come out of the event included: Displacement is likely to be a significant consequence of global climate change processes of both a rapid […] Susan Chaplin, a senior research officer at the School of Public Health at La Trobe University, wrote a working paper on climate-related displacement in South Asia. Her paper first provides an overview of the predicted ‘hot spots’ and key issues, along with a brief discussion of climate-induced displacement terminology. The second part examines the relevant existing social […] March 31, 2011 – The International Organization for Migration released a publication on “Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in IOM’s Response to Environmental Migration.” This document presents IOM’s engagement in building the resilience of countries and communities affected by a changing climate, environmental hazards and structural factors of vulnerability in order to foster […] |
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