The climate migration deal has been dubbed as offering Tuvaluans a lifeline, but others say it is a neocolonial arrangement that does not tackle rising ocean levels.
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A recently signed Australia-Tuvalu citizenship agreement offers people displaced by climate change a chance to ‘move with dignity’. But staying with dignity has to be an option too.
Exploring the potential intersections between climate change and violence against children is crucial.
Fairbourne on the west coast of Wales is at risk from both rising sea levels and river flooding.
Why the UN Refugee Convention should be updated to protect climate migrants.
Recognizing the challenges posed by climate-induced displacement is important. But officials must avoid rhetoric about displaced people that can fuel xenophobia.
The European Union is a confederation of states, each with its own agenda and perspective. As a result, the EU’s responses to migration crises are critically flawed.
Does the Global North have a moral responsibility to protect and compensate those in the Global South that disproportionately bear the brunt of climate change devastation?
When climate change is used to explain migration, social inequality is naturalised.
We can’t let communities face climate change alone. We must get better at adapting to the new climate, and do it before disasters not during.
International refugee law must be overhauled to consider climate change and include “deadly environments” as a form of persecution.
If rural communities plan carefully – and some already are – they can reinvent themselves as the perfect homes for people fleeing wildfire and hurricane zones.
76 per cent of Canadians say environmental policy and sustainability is a priority when considering where to live.
Climate migrants still tend to move to places they know or have connections to through their social networks.
Rising sea levels are as likely to trap people as they are to force them to move.
If the pandemic is a sort of climate ‘stress-test’, the world is failing it.
Directly linking climate change with aggression and mass migration risks dehumanising those vulnerable to environmental stresses. Mufazzar’s story does the opposite.
Both drought and violence drove many Syrians out of their homes; even if the war ends, the continuing difficulty of farming will make it hard for them to return.
Beware those who say it is a solved problem.
Poverty and violence are often cited as the reasons people emigrate from Central America, but factors such as drought, exacerbated by climate change, are driving people to leave too.
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor in Policy and Intersectionality, UCL
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Charles Darwin University
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Professor in Organisation & Sustainability, University of Exeter
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Professor of Natural Sciences, UCL
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Associate Professor in Earth System Science, University of Exeter
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Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle
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Director, ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
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Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL
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Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior; Director, Institute on the Environment, University of Minnesota
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Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in Coastal Dynamics, Bangor University
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Deputy Director, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor, Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience, University of Florida
