This is a great blog post I found on The Hill’s Congress Blog. It is by Alice Thomas, Climate Displacement Programme Manager for Refugees International, and encapsulates the Pakistan crisis with a climate change and migration viewpoint. (The Hill’s Congress Blog) August 18, 2010 – The devastating floods in Pakistan have claimed the lives of [...]
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The World Wildlife Fund established the Climate Prep blog to “define climate change adaptation through illustrations of on the ground adaptation projects and scientific adaptation studies, explorations of adaptation concepts, and tracking firsthand the progress of adaptation in the international policy arena.” This is especially pertinent to the field of climate change-induced migration, as the [...] (Displacement Solutions) June 10, 2010 – Extreme climate events – be it the result of environmental destruction by people, or naturally occurring changes in climate – are forcing people to flee their traditional place of residence with enormous sufferings in points of transit and the points of destination without any support from aid agencies or [...] (The Transatlantic Dialogue on Climate Change and Security) June 3, 2010 – Foreign Policy’s Passport blog has a quick post, “Pacific islands are actually growing” linking to a new study from the University of Auckland saying that 80% of Pacific Islands have grown or stayed the same size of the last 60 years. The article [...] “Hot Cities” is a powerful and informative documentary series that was aired last fall on BBC World News TV. This is an excellent eight-part series about the present effects of climate change on cities around the world. Three of the episodes center around the issue of human mobility as a result of climate change at [...] The European Environmental Agency has put up a small slide show of photos of people from the Sundarbans affected by both the sudden and creeping effects of climate change. The Sundarbans is located across areas of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India. This slide show is part of their ‘Signals’ report which they publish at the [...] |
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