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Environmental Migration | IOM, UN Migration

The Environmental Migration Portal is a one-stop service website to promote new research, information exchange and dialogue.

Environmental Migration

It is expected that by 2050 climate change could lead up to 216 million people to move within their countries if no urgent action to reduce global greenhouse ...

The climate crisis, migration, and refugees - Brookings Institution

The UNHCR has thus far refused to grant these people refugee status, instead designating them as “environmental migrants,” in large part because ...

Environmental Migration Portal

Overview of IOM Projects on Migration, Environment, Climate Change and Risk Reduction Publication 28 Oct 2021

Article: Climate Migration 101: An Explainer | migrationpolicy.org

Climate change is not the main reason why people move, but it is increasingly part of the story. Environmental issues are generally minor ...

Environmental Displacement and Migration

People can experience environmental displacement in many ways. They may be forced to leave their homes and communities due to sudden-onset events (such as ...

Environmental migrant - Wikipedia

Environmental migrant ... Environmental migrants are people who are forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local or ...

environmental migrant - European Commission

A person who, for compelling reasons of sudden or progressive changes in the environment that adversely affect their life or living conditions, ...

Let's Talk About Climate Migrants, Not Climate Refugees

Our work at IOM has been focused for over 10 years on bringing climatic and environmental factors to the light and on building a body of ...

Environmental migration - Taxonomy

Research in this category includes studies on natural versus anthropogenic climate change, the interaction between environmental and non-environmental factors.

Environmental Refugee - National Geographic Education

These climate refugees belong to a larger group of immigrants known as environmental migrants. Environmental migrants also include people who ...

Migration and the climate crisis: the UN's search for solutions

Dina Ionesco is the head of the Migration, Environment and Climate Change Division at the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM), ...

Environmental Migrants | Striking Women

Environmental migrants are people who are forced to migrate from or flee their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local environment ...

The effect of environmental change on human migration

This paper presents a new framework for understanding the effect of environmental change on migration.

Defining 'environmental migration'

Environmental migration commonly presents itself where there is a slow-onset environmental change or degradation process (such as desertification) affecting ...

Environmental Migration: Finding Solutions for the 21st Century

This paper explores environmental migration as a potential method of adaptation. First, it will analyze environmental migration as a phenomenon.

There could be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050. Here's what you ...

Besides fighting climate change as a priority, one way to tackle climate migration is to create economic opportunity in societies threatened by environmental ...

Environmental migration

Climate migration is a type of environmental migration whereby the changes in environment leading to migration are caused by climate change (IOM, 2019). There ...

Where Are All the Climate Migrants? Expla.. - Migration Policy Institute

Millions of people migrate each year because of the impacts of climate change and other extreme environmental events.

How Do Environmental Factors Influence Migration?

Our findings suggest that environmental impacts result mainly in internal migration or migration to low- and middle-income countries, rather than cross-border ...