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Latest figures about environmental migration
Climate change is causing major environmental changes across the globe, often with severe and irreversible impacts upon people’s lives. In such conditions, migration can be an adaptive solution, empowering people to find new solutions to living sustainable lives in new areas. In other situations, climate change drives forced displacement through event such as extreme storms, hurricanes, floods and droughts. This video provides the latest data from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre and the World Bank.
Four things you might not know about environmental migration
All over the globe, people are moving internally within countries, as well as across borders and internationally. Much of this migration is driven by climate change: climate change may directly force movement due to disaster displacement events such as floods and hurricanes. Climate change may also result in longer term effects, such as droughts, sea level rise, environmental degradation. When the environment is unable to sustain livelihoods, people move in search of new opportunities. Migration can be a solution to climate change adaptation.
Pacific Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters and Climate Change
IOM has been spearheading initiatives across the Pacific to slow the effects of coastal erosion, including the construction of seawalls to attenuate the crushing tides and reinforcing infrastructure. Rebuilding more solid homes for Micronesians who lost theirs during Typhoon Maysak fits those efforts. In February 2018, IOM, in collaboration with the Platform on Disaster Displacement, organized a regional workshop for Pacific Island States, opening an environment in which policymakers could strengthen their understanding of key issues around human mobility in the context of disasters and climate change. Read more in ‘After the Storm’: https://features.iom.int/stories/afte... For more information about IOM's work on the links between climate change, environment and migration visit: www.environmentalmigration.iom.int
Why A Multipronged Approach is Necessary to Address Environmental Migration
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2018, Jorge Galindo sat down with Dina Ionesco to talk about the evolution of IOM's work on the nexus between migration, climate change and the environment over the years, and why it is important to include this nexus in the upcoming Global Compact for Migration.
Madagascar: Climate Change and Migration
In Madagascar, social and environmental changes have driven many to migrate. In response, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) Development Fund is providing support to the Government of Madagascar to raise awareness on the interdependence of migration and environmental changes.
Addressing Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Migration
In the margins of the High-level Panel organized on 30 November 2017 at the 108th Session of the Council of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) entitled ‘Opportunities to Address Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration’, panelists gave their inputs. The Panel aimed to show that the international community can no longer design migration policy without taking into account the environmental state of our planet and its impacts on all policy areas.
With the participation of:
Amb. William Lacy Swing, Director General of IOM
Amb. Laura Thompson, Deputy Director General of IOM
Mr. Nicolas Hulot, Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition of France
Amb. Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations in Geneva and Chief Negotiator for the COP23 Presidency
Prof. Walter Kaelin, Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement (PDD)
Ms. Keiko Kiyama, Co-President of the Japan Emergency NGO and Executive Director of Japan Platform
I08th IOM Council: High-Level Panel Discussion on Opportunities to Address Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
Panel participants:
- Nicolas Hulot, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition, France
- Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other international organizations and Chief Negotiator for the COP23 Presidency
- Keiko Kiyama, Co-President of Japan Emergency NGO (JEN), Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Japan Platform, Japan
Moderator: William Lacy Swing, Director General, IOM
You can find more information on the High-Level Panel Discussion on Opportunities to Address Migration and Climate Change in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration at the following links:
- Concept note
- Press release
- Statement by Ms. Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
Réfugiés climatiques : s’adapter avant de fuir
Ils seront 250 millions à l’horizon 2050 selon les projections de l’ONU. Les personnes déplacées en raison des effets du réchauffement climatiques migrent le plus souvent temporairement et à l’intérieur même de leur pays. Mais lorsqu’elles franchissent des frontières, elles ne bénéficient pas du statut de réfugiés car la désertification, la montée des eaux ou la fonte du permafrost ne sont pas reconnus comme des motifs d’asile. Comment faire face aux effets du changement climatique ? Peut-on s’y adapter, y compris en Suisse où les glissements de terrain risquent de se multiplier ? Reportage de Thibaut Cavaillès aux Philippines, suivi d’une discussion avec Martin Beniston, climatologue et Dina Ionesco, cheffe à l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations.
Pour plus d'informations: https://www.rts.ch/religion/faut-pas-croire/9095244-refugies-climatiques...
Migration, Environment and Climate Change in South America
IOM works closely with governments in South America to reduce migrants' vulnerability, address forced migration, and respond to disasters.
Migration & Madagascar
Madagascar is one of the most climate-affected countries in the world. This has increasingly significant impacts on population movement. The support provided by IOM Development Fund aims to address challenges in Madagascar and other countries in the region related to the increased frequency of extreme weather events. Ultimately the goal is to set regional priorities and cooperation with regards to streamlining response to environmental change, including climate change, through better migration management, environment and development policies.