Climate-related events like hurricanes, floods, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires have already displaced many people around the world. In the U.S. alone, an estimated 1.2 million were forced to leave their homes in 2018.By 2030, climate change could force 120 million people into poverty and migration in order to avoid starvation.'Everywhere is affected by this. Rich countries. Poor countries. The Americas, the Pacific, Africa,' explains Mariam Traore Chazalnoël, IOM Senior Expert in Migration, Environment and Climate Change.

Building on the high-level political Part I of BCSC 2020 and the launch of the Global Climate Security Risk and Foresight Assessment, Part II of the conference runs from September 7 to October 2. It brings together the climate-security community of practice and aims to inform policies and programming on the ground, including the Global Climate Security Risk and Foresight Assessment led by adelphi and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).