Who are climate refugees?
The climate crisis is no secret–but you might not know how it’s affecting vulnerable populations around the globe. This month, Novel Hand explores the lived experiences of climate refugees and effective solutions to protect them.
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Anywhere from 50 to 300 million people may face climate-induced displacement over the coming century. This is an almost unimaginable number of people who will need resources, including food and security, and who will need to seek out a new home as climate refugees. Throughout this Impactfull series, we have learned about the challenges
Continue reading Finding Solutions for Climate Refugees
Today on the podcast, Nonprofit Director Katherine and Refugees and Migration Editor Grace sit down to discuss our July Impactfull partner, Climate Refugees, and to wrap up an excellent month of learning and impact. Using a people-driven approach, founder and Executive Director Amali Tower and the team at Climate Refugees work to uplift the
Continue reading You Can Help Climate Refugees. Here’s How.
What does it mean to take an interdisciplinary approach to research and policy for an issue as complex as climate refugees and climate-driven migration? For Prof. Jonathan Gilligan, it looks like drawing on expertise across fields – ranging from environmental science and law to psychology and political science – and developing a multifaceted view
Continue reading Climate Refugees: An Interdisciplinary Approach with Jonathan Gilligan
Climate refugees are a group of people without name, description, recognition, or protection in international law. As the climate crisis continues to worsen with each passing year, immediate change is essential. Yet, before we can develop solutions for the problems that climate refugees face, we must better understand these multidimensional challenges. Displacement is one
Continue reading Challenges for Climate Refugees in the 21st Century
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Subscribe to the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement Newsletter to receive technology- and data-driven insights on the state of international refugee crises and responses. This is a great way to stay up-to-date on climate refugee news!
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In February 2021, President Biden signed an Executive Order on rebuilding and improving programs for climate refugees and further planning for the impact of climate change on migration. This Order establishes a formal way of resettling climate migrants and directs the Biden Administration to more thoroughly and officially investigate climate change and migration.
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The Mobile International Mobility Convention (MIMC) aims to help establish the rights of climate displaced individuals to freely move and seek security. Over the span of 213 articles, the Convention establishes minimum and special rights to all people who cross borders for various reasons, including everyone from tourists to forced migrants.
Legal action is essential for climate justice and you can contribute by staying informed. Read the Convention (or a summary), sign the Convention, and stay up to date with the MIMC newsletter.
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Anywhere from 50 to 300 million people may face climate-induced displacement over the coming century. This is an almost unimaginable number of people who will need resources, including food and security, and who will need to seek out a new home as climate refugees. Throughout this Impactfull series, we have learned about the challenges
Continue reading Finding Solutions for Climate Refugees
Today on the podcast, Nonprofit Director Katherine and Refugees and Migration Editor Grace sit down to discuss our July Impactfull partner, Climate Refugees, and to wrap up an excellent month of learning and impact. Using a people-driven approach, founder and Executive Director Amali Tower and the team at Climate Refugees work to uplift the
Continue reading You Can Help Climate Refugees. Here’s How.
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “Great Wall”? Perhaps you are reminded of the Great Wall of China, or the wall former President Donald Trump vowed to construct along the United States-Mexico border. However, there is another “Great Wall”, one that may join the Great Wall of China as a World
Continue reading Combating Climate Change: The Great Green Wall
The climate-migration nexus occupies a unique space in our understanding of climate change, migration, and international law.
What does it mean to take an interdisciplinary approach to research and policy for an issue as complex as climate refugees and climate-driven migration? For Prof. Jonathan Gilligan, it looks like drawing on expertise across fields – ranging from environmental science and law to psychology and political science – and developing a multifaceted view
Continue reading Climate Refugees: An Interdisciplinary Approach with Jonathan Gilligan
Climate refugees are a group of people without name, description, recognition, or protection in international law. As the climate crisis continues to worsen with each passing year, immediate change is essential. Yet, before we can develop solutions for the problems that climate refugees face, we must better understand these multidimensional challenges. Displacement is one
Continue reading Challenges for Climate Refugees in the 21st Century
Today on Handful, Grace introduces our newest Impactfull series on climate refugees by sitting down with Kelsea Best, a PhD candidate in the Earth and Environmental Science department at Vanderbilt University. Kelsea studies environmental and climate migration in coastal Bangladesh, thinking about the relationship between humans and their natural environments as well as the
Continue reading Climate Migration in Bangladesh with Kelsea Best
Before the world closed its borders indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Guatemalans were fleeing north, towards the United States. They were not fleeing from war or conflict—but from a land that had turned against them. What’s causing coffee plantations to fail, how are coffee farmers responding, and what can you do
Continue reading Climate Migration: A Crisis of Coffee in Guatemala
What is Asylum, Anyway? The asylum-seeking process in the United States has been under scrutiny for years from all sides of the political spectrum. Most recently, the Trump Administration has taken a very rigid approach to immigration as a whole, as well as the process and admittance of asylum seekers. Often terms like “refugee”
Continue reading All About Asylum in the United States: A Flawed System
Between harmful rhetoric about immigration and campaigns of misinformation about climate change, the world is unprepared for a dramatic increase in climate “refugees” over the coming decades. So, why “refugees” in quotes? Under the leadership of the United Nations, the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees defines the “refugee” concept and discusses
Continue reading Climate “Refugees” Explained
