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Each year, climate and weather-related events drive tens of millions of people from their homes.

Climate displacement is happening now, and we need to pay attention.

Devastation from Hurricanes Eta and Iota has deepened the humanitarian crisis in Central America.

By 2050, the number of climate migrants in West Africa and the Lake Victoria Basin could reach 86 million.

Recommendations for the Biden Administration on Climate Migration “There is little doubt that tens of millions of people will be displaced over the next two to three decades due in large measure by disaster and other environmental changes affected by climate, with the majority displaced within the borders of their own countries. The United States has a special responsibility to lead on issues of climate change, migration, and displacement,” said Eric Schwartz, President of Refugees Internat...

Refugees International Launches Task Force on Climate Change and Migration Format Expert Group Includes Former Senior U.S. Government Officials, Climate and Migration Specialists, and Leaders of Major International NGOs WASHINGTON—Refugees International announced today the launch of an expert task force on climate change and migration in response to an Executive Order (EO) issued by President Biden on February 4. The executive order, which focused in large measure on the U.S. refugee admissio...

Building Resilience in the Sahel in an Era of Forced Displacement “The impacts of displacement present major challenges at every level of decision-making, but the opportunities for interventions that build resilience to climate change, foster social cohesion, and address gender and other disparities—well they’re also very real as well,” said Ambassador Mark Green, President, Director, and CEO of the Wilson Center, during his opening remarks at a recent event hosted by the Wilson Center ...

FERREIROLA, Spain As climate change-related disasters become ever more common, they have given rise to increasingly dire warnings about impending mass migration by those displaced. This tendency to focus on movement has largely, if unintentionally, obscured an equally important question: why people don’t move.  An emerging group of experts is arguing that dominant narratives around climate migration – focused on doomsday scenarios of large numbers of people relocating from the Global South...

Joe Biden said climate change has impacted the southern border crisis. But Central American countries havent been invited to the White House climate summit By Cara Korte April 19, 2021 / 6:00 AM / CBS News President Joe Biden has invited 40 nations to participate in the two-day virtual Leaders Summit on Climate, which will take place later this week. But three countries experts say are fueling the immigration crisis at the U.S. southern border arent on the list — even ...