Disaster Risk Reduction
Environment, climate change and migration: IOM’s approach and activities
The environment has always been a driver of migration, as people flee to survive natural disasters or, faced with harsh and deteriorating environmental conditions, move to seek opportunities elsewhere. Climate change is expected to exacerbate sudden- and slow-onset disasters and gradual environmental degradation. Through these impacts, climate change is already influencing migration around the world.
The Other Migrants Preparing for Change: Environmental Changes and Migration in the Republic of Mauritius
This report presents the results of a field work and analytical study conducted in 2010 in the Republic of Mauritius by two experts on environmental migration and adaptation to climate change. While climate change and environmental degradation are not new issues in Mauritius, looking at these issues from a human mobility perspective is a new phenomenon.
WMR 2010 Background Paper: Climate Change and International Migration
Disaster risk reduction, Climate change adaptation and Environmental migration: A Policy Perspective
This paper presents IOM’s efforts to support vulnerable and mobile communities affected by environmental hazards through disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) activities conducive to sustainable development.
