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Climate migration is a subset of climate-related mobility that refers to movement driven by the impact of sudden or gradual climate-exacerbated disasters, such as "abnormally heavy rainfalls, prolonged droughts, desertification, environmental degradation, or sea-level rise and cyclones". [1]
Climate migration is the displacement of people both internally within countries or internationally due to climate-related disasters, which include both rapid and slow onset events. Slow onset events describe natural disasters that are exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change and occur over several years or decades. [1]
SIDS have also been active participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for making progress towards preventing migration issues and pushing for stronger policies. [26] In September 2014, the SIDS met in Apia, Samoa to form the SAMOA Pathway, a ten year plan that addresses climate change faced in the islands ...
The United Nations International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that estimates range from 25 million to a billion people who could be displaced by 2050 as the result of climate change ...
Climate migrations. Fertile geographies are inevitably becoming the destinations for mass climate migrations, as I documented in the book MOVE. Meeting the Paris Agreement emissions targets won ...
Migration and Global Environmental Change [1] was a report about the influence of climate change on patterns of human migration and displacement published in 2011. The report was produced by the Foresight unit at the UK's Government Office of Science. It became known colloquially as 'The Foresight Report' among people working in the field of ...