Video: EJF Talks to the President of the Maldives and the Premier of Niue

edToolbar() In addition to my last post, below is a short video by the Environmental Justice Foundation, a UK-based charity calling for international protection for environmental migr ants. As part of their ‘No Place Like Home‘ campaign, EJF talked to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives and Premier Tolagi of Niue about how climate change […]

Video: "Emerging Policy Perspectives on Human Mobility in a Changing Climate"

Here is the recorded webcast from the panel discussion last week entitled “Emerging Policy Perspectives on Human Mobility in a Changing Climate”. It was put on by the UN University Office at the UN New York during Climate Week in NYC. The three objectives of the panel were to increase public awareness about the impact […]

Video: "Climate Change: Migration and Displacement" Focus Session at the 2009 Global Humanitarian Forum

The annual Global Humanitarian Forum is an independent and impartial global platform where different members of the global society collaborate in order to overcome key humanitarian concerns. The 2009 Forum entitled “Human Impact of Climate Change” took place in Geneva this past June and was focused on the human dimensions and impacts of climate change, […]

Live Online Event: "Insure Me: Climate Change, Human Migration and Risk"

(UNU-ONY) – The United Nations University Office in New York is organizing a multi-part panel discussion of policy perspectives on human migration as an effect of climate change and on risk reduction and insurance. The event will consist of two panel discussions. Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m, Eastern time […]

Video: Kenya and the Realities of Rural to Urban Migration

Erratic weather patterns and increasing droughts and floods due to climate change are causing people in rural Kenya to migrate to the urban centre of Nairobi. There is evidence that already crowded slums are being overwhelmed by constant arrivals of people who are seeking a better life due to loss of rural livelihoods in the southeastern […]

'Time to Click' Shows Us the Human Face of Climate Change

‘Time to Click’ is an internet campaign calling on photographers around the world – professional and amateur alike – to help show the human face of climate change. Time to Click asks photographers to submit pictures that show how climate change affects their communities right now, and how it affects people in the places they’ve […]