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The adverse impacts of climate change and environmental degradation have increasingly contributed to migration, a trend which is expected to persist and grow. Over 95 per cent of disaster displacement that occurs in the region is due to climate and weather-related, sudden-onset disasters such as storms and floods. The region is highly vulnerable to climate impacts and slow-onset environmental changes and degradation due to its reliance on natural resources and agricultural sectors, persistent poverty, and the location of major cities in coastal and low-lying areas exposed to natural hazards. Slow-onset processes, including sea-level rise, coastal erosion, ocean acidification and droughts, along with climatic changes linked to shifting precipitation and temperature patterns, have also had tangible impacts. 

Content

1. Introduction
2. Political and institutional outlook for the region 

• Asia and the Pacific
• Current and future key partners

3. Migration outlook for the region 

• Impacts of environmental and climate change on human mobility
• Demographic shifts
• Skilling and re-skilling migrants and portability of social protection
• Irregular migration
• Child migrants and children "left behind"
• Displacement 
• Rural-to-urban migration
• COVID-19 impacts

4. Regional strategic priorities 

• Resilience
• Mobility
• Governance
• Across pillars 

5. Institutional development 

• Policy capacity and knowledge management (icluding research and data collection)
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Communications and visibility 
• Innovation
• Staff development 

6. Concluding statement: IOM in the region in 2024