Tag: climate displacement
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Time to pay more attention to climate displacement
The issue of human displacement due to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change used to be a topic of anticipatory actions, but it has become an active problem here and now. This is because the world has now entered the new era of losses and damages that are attributable to the fact that global…
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Centring human rights, choice and agency in forced climate displacement policy design in Bangladesh
[quotes quotes_style=”bquotes” quotes_pos=”center”] Rural to urban climate-linked displacement is increasing worldwide, stretching urban slum capacity Conditions in Dhaka’s temporary settlements in the slums are inhuman, with poor access to basic services In the short term, investment is needed to make conditions liveable in the slums In the long term, a robust protection framework that centres…
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COP21: Why the Paris talks must tackle climate-forced migration
With the crisis of refugees arriving in to Europe from Syria and other countries in Asia and Africa the topic of climate change, displacement and migration assumes a high level of attention. Much of the debate is characterised by prejudice rather than evidence. We should accept the obvious truism that humans have been moving for…
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Dhaka – a city on the brink of a climate refugee crisis
(This article has originally been published here) To the surprise of very few, Dhaka has been ranked as one of the most unlivable cities in the world. Delving deeper beneath the apparent reasons – overpopulation, pollution, and congestion – reveals a major underlying cause: unsustainable levels of climate induced displacement and migration. “Climate change acts…