Knowledge Platform on People on the Move in a Changing Climate
"It's a reality in Europe, it's not something that will happen in centuries".
Listen to what experts have to say about climate migration in Europe:
Dina Ionesco, Head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change Division, IOM
Alexandra Bilak, Director of IDMC
François Gemenne, Director of the Hugo Observatory and Researcher, Sciences Po
The Africa Migration Report takes a distinctly regional approach to inform knowledge on migration in Africa. This first edition, titled Challenging the Narrative, aims to deconstruct negative perceptions of migration in Africa by addressing contextual realities and bringing to light practical interventions and evidence-based knowledge on what is happening on the ground.
Table of contents:
IOM Director General, António Vitorino, delivers a support message for the Midnight Survival Deadline for the Climate, launched by the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) in October 2020. He calls for the submission of updated and ambitious Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) by the UN deadline, midnight of 31 December 2020, and highlights the impacts of climate change on migration.
How is the issue of human mobility in the context of disasters, environmental degradation and climate change treated in the global policy debate (including the Global Compacts for Migration and on Refugees, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement under the UNFCCC and the Task Force on Displacement)?
Moderator: Nina Birkeland, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Speakers:
The co-migration of human and other species catalyzed by environmental change, including climate change, is anticipated to increase dramatically in the next decades. As calls mount for conservation to account for these trends, how will conservation practice be affected and what conflicts are likely to increase?
Panelists:
Climate change continued its relentless march in 2020, which is on track to be one of the three warmest years on record. 2011-2020 will be the warmest decade on record, with the warmest six years all being since 2015, according to the World Meteorological Organization.