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.
In order to shine a light on the plight of children on the move and to better understand how children and young people are affected by climate-related migration and displacement, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNICEF hosted a two-day virtual symposium in November 2020.
Panellists offered perspective and analysis on the impact of climate change, including in its interplay with conflict, on present and future population displacement and migration trends.
The Atlas of Environmental Migration is the first illustrated publication mapping this complex phenomenon. It clarifies terminology and concepts, draws a typology of migration related to environment and climate change, describes the multiple factors at play, explains the challenges, and highlights the opportunities related to this phenomenon.