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Recognition themed documents
- Environmental Refugees: The Case for Recognition - Molly Conisbee & Andrew Simms
- A Citizen’s Guide to Climate Refugees - Friends of the Earth Australia
- Turning the Tide: Recognizing Climate Change Refugees in International Law - Angela Williams, Law & Policy, Vol. 30, No. 4, (Oct 2008)
- Protecting Climate Refugees: The Case for a Global Protocol - Frank Biermann & Ingrid Boas, Environment Magazine (Dec 2008)
- Towards a Convention for Persons Displaced by Climate Change - The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, the London School of Economics (Mar 2009)
- Climate Change Induced Forced Migrants: in need of dignified recognition under a new Protocol - Equitybd Bangladesh (Apr 2009)
- Extending Refugee Definitions to Cover Environmentally Displaced Persons - Iowa Law Review
- Confronting a Rising Tide: A Proposal for a Convention on Climate Change Refugees - Harvard Environmental Law Review (Jul 2009)
- No Place Like Home: Where Next For Climate Refugees? - Environmental Justice Foundation (Nov 2009)
Documents and reports
- Climate change and forced migration: Observations, projections and implications - Oli Brown, Human Development Report (2007)
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 2008 - Brookings-Bern
- Human Security, Climate Change, and Environmentally Induced Migration - UNU-EHS (Jun 2008)
- Migration and Climate Change - IOM (2008)
- Future Floods of Refugees - Norwegian Refugee Council (2008)
- Climate Change, Migration and Displacement: Who will be affected? - IASC (Oct 2008)
- Linking Environmental Change, Migration & Social Vulnerability - UNU-EHS (2009)
- Climate Change and Displacement - Forced Migration Review Issue 31
- Environment and Disaster Risk: Emerging Perspectives - UNEP (2008)
- The Humanitarian Costs of Climate Change - Feinstein International Center (Dec 2008)
- Policy Brief: Migration, Climate Change and the Environment - IOM (May 2009)
- The Right to Survive - Oxfam International (Apr 2009)
- Forced Displacement in the Context of Climate Change: Challenges for States Under International Law - UNHCR (May 2009)
- Human Impact Report: The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis - Global Humanitarian Forum (May 2009)
- Climate Change and Statelessness: An Overview - UNHCR (May 2009)
- Natural disasters and forced displacement in the context of climate change - OCHA-NRC policy brief (Jun 2009)
- Crisis or adaptation? Migration and climate change in a context of high mobility - Cecilia Tacoli, IIED (Jun 2009)
- In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement - CARE International (May 2009)
- Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement 2009 - Brookings-Bern
- The Future is Here: Climate Change in the Pacific - Oxfam Australia (Jul 2009)
- UNHCR Policy Paper: Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement: a UNHCR perspective - UNHCR (updated Aug 2009)
- 2009 Forum - Human Impact of Climate Change - Global Humanitarian Forum (2009)
- Accommodating Migration to Promote Adaptation to Climate Change - Commission on Climate Change and Development (Mar 2009)
- The Way Forward: Researching the Environment and Migration Nexus - UNU-EHS (Nov 2009)
- Climate Changed: People Displaced - Norwegian Refugee Council (Dec 2009)
- Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Assessing the Evidence - IOM (Dec 2009)
- Climate Change and Migration - Focus Migration (Dec 2009)
INGOs, NGOs, and Government
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) - Climate Change And Environmentally Induced Migration
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - Climate Change
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Climate Change
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)
- International Organization for Migration (IOM) - Migration, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation
- The United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
- Oxfam International - Climate change
- Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) - Climate Change and Displacement
- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) - Climate Change
- Department for International Development (DFID) - Climate and Environment
Organizations, conferences, and research projects
- COP15 Copenhagen - UN Climate Change Conference (Dec 7-18, 2009)
- EACH-FOR - EU sponsored research project on climate change and forced migration
- International Conference on Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability (EFMSV)
- Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
- Ken and Darcy Bacon Center for the Study of Climate Displacement - Refugees International
- Policy Forum on Climate Refugees - Global Governance Project
- Time to Click - Oxfam funded campaign which features photography showing the human face of climate change
- Global Humanitarian Forum - Human Impact of Climate Change
- Munich Re Foundation - Social Vulnerability
- Climate Change, Environment and Migration Alliance (CCEMA)
Film and media
- The Last Days of Shishmaref - Documentary film written/directed by Jan Louter (2008)
- Sun Come Up - Documentary film directed/produced by Jennifer Redfearn (in-progress)
- Climate Refugees - Documentary film by Michael Nash (2009)
Selected articles from the web
- A new (under) class of travellers - The Economist (Jun 2009)
- The human tsunami - Financial Times (Jun 2009)
- The Legal Status of Environmental Refugees - GIMUN (2009)
- Here comes the flood - Janos Bogardi & Koko Warner (Dec 2008)
- Fifty million climate refugees by 2010 - IIASTD (2008)
- Refugees Join List of Climate-Change Issues - Neil MacFarquhar/New York Times (May 2009)
- How-to guide for environmental refugees - Ursula Rakova/UN University (Jun 2009)
- Paradise lost? - Michael von Bülow/COP15 (Mar 2009)
- Bangladesh: Where the Climate Exodus Begins - Five part series by E&E Publishing (2009)
- Protecting climate change refugees - The Guardian (Sep 2009)
- Fleeing drought in the Horn of Africa - Edmund Sanders/LA Times (Oct 2009)
- Climate Migration in Latin America: A Future ‘Flood of Refugees’ to the North? - Alexandra Deprez/COHA (Feb 2010)
- Climate Change and Migration: Sorting through Complex Issues without the Hype - Carolina Fritz/Migration Policy Institute (Mar 2010)
