Climate Migration
Meet four people in refugee communities who are creating a greener future: In honor of Earth Day, UNHCR told the stories of four individuals who are making positive impacts in their communities and creating sustainable solutions.
Global Refuge Climate Displacement Hub: Explore Global Refuge’s growing list of resources and updates surrounding climate displacement.
The Case for Welcoming as Resilience: A Whitepaper: This whitepaper, published by Welcoming America, is the first in a series of content on climate change and migration. It explores the landscape of migration impacted specifically by climate change and how welcoming communities are meeting the moment, demonstrating that it is possible to both plan for and act on demographic and population changes in ways that are inclusive of newcomers’ needs, as well as ensuring the long-term ability for all residents to adapt, thrive, and belong.
Special Issue: Climate Change and Migration: This special issue, with articles from leading scholars, examines the connection between climate change and migration through historical, scientific, and legal overviews, on a global scale and in individual countries.
Climate Migration 101: An Explainer: offers answers to basic questions about the relationship between climate change and migration, starting with how and where climate change triggers human movement. If you want to tap into deeper MPI research on climate migration or find all of their resources on the topic collected in one place, you can find them here.
Climate Displacement and Resilience Database: Click around this interactive map to explore and filter global data collected on climate displacement, climate event exposure and vulnerability, emissions goals and compliance, governance and capacity building for climate resilience and mitigation, and climate finance needs and barriers.
Dangerous Narratives 2.0: This guide will offer ways to communicate about climate-linked migration through justice-based framing and suggest essential tactics to counter dangerous anti-migrant narratives.
Environmental Migration: Finding Solutions for the 21st Century: This paper explores environmental migration as a potential method of adaptation. It analyzes environmental migration as a phenomenon, focused on some of the nuances that make weather- and climate-related forces complicated yet influential factors in the decision to move. It also considers existing international mechanisms and U.S. laws that could potentially relate to environmental migration. And it discusses how immigrant and diasporic communities are especially vulnerable to environmental harms, even after they have already migrated.
Refugees and displaced people from climate frontlines call for greater inclusion at COP28: At this year’s UN climate change conference in Dubai – COP28 – forcibly displaced climate activists spoke up on behalf of millions of other refugees and internally displaced people who have been disproportionately impacted by climate change.
Climate change-worsened disasters have displaced more than 1 million in Latin America: A new report from Mexico's University of the Americas Puebla says that climate disasters displaced more than 1 million people from the Caribbean and Latin America in 2021 alone. Climate change could displace more than 216 million people worldwide by 2050, including 17 million from Latin American countries.
They Fled Climate Chaos. Asylum Rules Made for War Might Not Help. The Miskito, an Indigenous group from Honduras, are fleeing the effects of extreme weather — but weather and climate are not on the list as grounds for asylum.