Robert McLeman of the University of Ottawa and International Organization for Migration released a report entitled “Climate Change, Migration, and International Security Considerations.” Executive Summary The impacts of anthropogenic climate change are expected to lead to large-scale population displacements and migrations in the coming decades, with the potential to create instability and conflict in the […]

(The Asian Development Bank) The ADB is taking a leadership role in helping Asia ang the Pacific to mitigate the causes – and adapt to the consequences – of climate change.  As part of this ongoing effort, ADB is undertaking the first international project designed to generate policy options for addressing climate-induced migration. Contributing to […]

(International Institute for Environment and Development) February 2, 2011 – Governments risk adopting policies that increase people’s cialis buy online vulnerability to climate change because of a general prejudice against migration, according to research published today by the International Institute for Environment and Development. The research, which includes case studies from Bolivia, Senegal and Tanzania, […]

Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre shed some light on climate change and displacement from a local legal and policy framework perspective at a December 8 High Commissioner’s Dialogue side event. The Centre analyzed four countries that are particularly vulnerable to climate change-induced displacement: Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya, and Bangladesh. The study fills a significant lacuna. It assesses […]