Climate change is increasingly recognized as a significant driver of migration patterns worldwide. As the global temperatures rise, extreme weather events become more frequent, leading to disruptions in livelihoods displacement, and migration. Every day, climate change becomes a more urgent economic, ...
'International environmental law' means little unless it produces change in national legal systems and individual states.doi:10.1080/00207233.2012.696792Brett-CrowtherMichaelInternational Journal of Environmental Studies
Bethlehem Abebe, an analyst with regional bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), said the security and forced migration dimension of climate change in Africa should be accorded priority. "It is evident that climate change is causing forced mobility and tensions among communities...
Climate change Conflict Endogenous selection Forced migration Gravity model Refugee Simultaneous equations SPEI 1. Introduction The ongoing Syrian conflict, which began in March 2011, has drawn attention from both the scientific community and the media to the question of how climatic conditions can contri...
Climate Change, Forced Migration, and International LawEnvironmental refugees...doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199587087.001.0001Jane McAdamOxford University Press,
"Something has to be done now. We are already seeing people moving," said Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, a climate change and migration expert with the Geneva-based International Organization for Migration. Industrialized countries "are beginning to understand that there is a stake for them, too." ...
The report, titled "Groundswell - Preparing for Internal Climate Migration," projects that over 143 million people from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America could be forced to move within their own countries to escape the "slow onset impact" of climate change. ...
This is an important step for those forced to flee their countries due to climate change. That's because the U.N.'s 1951 Refugee Convention does not cover climate-related migration. It defines refugees as those who are outside their country of origin and have a well-founded fear of persec...
Furthermore, the international climate policy discourse explains three human mobility outcomes in the context of climate change: migration, displacement, and planned relocation8. Here migration refers to the voluntary movement of the people; contrary to this, displacement is termed as the forced ...
Climate change has significant impacts on human displacements. This chapter reviews the economics literature on climate change impacts on migration with an emphasis on the agricultural linkage. The empirical literature has documented very mixed results on climate change impacts on migration. To partly res...