Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate
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.
Mariam Traore Chazalnoel, IOM Senior Policy Officer, and Dina Ionesco, Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change Division, IOM, contributed with an article on environmental migration to the politically independent magazine for European security and defence policy. Learn more on how to avoid the worst possible scenarios when it comes to environmental migration.
This virtual event took place on 25 May 2021 and celebrated the launch of a new multi-partner project entitled: Addressing Drivers and Facilitating Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration in the Contexts of Disasters and Climate Change in the IGAD Region.
This briefing note examines the extent to which the different dimensions of human mobility have been integrated into the revised, updated, and newly submitted Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs).
More than half of the 41 million people worldwide living in internal displacement at the end of 2018 were women and girls. They experience displacement differently from men and boys, and face specific challenges that must be better understood to provide them with the support they need.