South Asia migration set to spike due to global warming Says Study
More than 62 million South Asian people will be forced to migrate from their homes due to climate disasters by
| 19 Dec 2020 5:11 AM GMT
The report, Costs of climate inaction: displacement and distress migration assesses climate-fuelled displacement and migration across five the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and calculates a devastating likelihood of more than 60 million people being homeless and displaced by 2050 in South Asia alone.
New Delhi
: More than 62 million South Asian people will be forced to migrate from their homes due to climate disasters by 2050, a new study revealed on Friday
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Afghanistan has been ranked eighth out of 170 countries for its vulnerability to climate change over the next 30 years, with 59 percent of the population affected by climate shocks compared to 19 percent suffering from security related shocks.
Working in collaboration with a number of organizations and government agencies, ActionAid and Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA) published its latest report Climate Change Drives Migration in Conflict-Ridden Afghanistan on Thursday and said for every one million inhabitants, 1,150 people die in Afghanistan every year, half of them from weather-related and geophysical events.
The report stated that the country’s low level of socio-economic development, combined with rising levels of insecurity, make people extremely vulnerable to disasters.
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Updated: 18 Dec 2020 10:36 PM BdST An Ansar member takes a child from Gabura, an island union in Satkhira’s Shyamnagar, to the Nildumur cyclone shelter as Cyclone Amphan closes in on the coasts of Bangladesh. Photo: Tomzid Mollick Residents are evacuated by boat in Bangladesh before cyclone Amphan on May 19, 2020.
The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple if global warming continues on its current path, researchers warned on Friday. );
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Nearly 63 million people could be forced from their homes by 2050 in the region as rising seas and rivers swallow villages, and drought-hit land no longer supports crops, said ActionAid International and Climate Action Network South Asia in a report.
NEW DELHI: More than 62 million people in South Asia, including over 45 million in India alone, will be forced to migrate from their homes due to climate disasters by 2050 in a business-as-usual scenario, said a new research study, released on the occasion of the International Migrants Day on Friday. In the case of India, the level of migration will, in fact, be more than three times in the next 30 years from the 2020 level.
“This (62 million) is almost as many people as are forced from their homes globally due to war and conflict, raising the alarm that climate can no longer be overlooked as a major factor driving displacement,” said the study.