Useful links
Climate refugees: hotspots and numbers
- IPCC 4th Assessment Report. Working group II
- German Advisory Council on Global Change
- The Stern review on the economics of climate change
- Christian Aid
- International Organization for Migration, Kniveton et al.
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Vikram Kolmannskog
- Forced Migration Review, Refugees Studies Centre
- International Organization for Migration, Oli Brown
- Robin Bronen, Guardian.co.uk
- Pinaki Roy, Panos London
- Oxfam International
- No Place like Home: Where Next for Climate Refugees, by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
- Documentary film: The Human Face of Climate Change
- In search of shelter. Report by CIESIN, the United Nations University, and CARE International
- Human Impact Report. Report by Global Humanitarian Forum
- Short movie on challenges faced by the Carteret Islanders. Click here more information on the movie.
- MA thesis by Justin Ginnetti: An analysis of Rural Out-Migration in Wollo, Ethiopia
- Norwegian Refugee Council, policy brief on displaced persons by sudden-onset natural disasters in 2008
- RMCO, Somalia, Climate Shock at the Somali Coast
- Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues, ACCID News Digest
- Babagana Abubakar, Impacts of climate change on Lake Chad
- Field research, EACH-FOR project
Climate refugees: an issue of international security, human rights or development?
- No Place Like Home: Where NExt for Climate Refugees, by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
- German Advisory Council on Global Change
- UN Security Council
- Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre
- Nils Petter Gleditsch, Ragnhild Nordås and Idean Salehyan, International Peace Academy
- CNA Corporation (written by a Military Advisory Board)
- International Institute for Sustainable Development, Oli Brown
- Norwegian Refugee Council, Vikram Kolmannskog, see also an additional report by Vikram Kolmannskog.
- Forced Migration Review, Refugees Studies Centre
- Warner, K., T. Afifi, O. Dun and M. Stal, MEA Bulletin
- International Council on Human Rights Policy
- Oxfam International
- Maldives mission: Human Rights and Climate Change
- Robin Bronen, Guardian.co.uk
- Pinaki Roy, Panos London
- Report by The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung & Center for International Environmental Law
- Claudio Guler, ISN Security Watch, see also the interview with Prof. Frank Biermann
- Submisission to the 6th session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action under the UNFCCC. By Office of the UNHCR, in cooperation with the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Representative of the Secretary General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons and the United Nations University.
- Hodgkinson et al., Research Note, Towards a Convention for Persons Displaced by Climate Change
- Md Shamsuddoha and Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, Equitybd, position paper on a new legal instrument under a Protocol to the UNFCCC
Other useful websites
- Minivan News: Independent News for the Maldives
- Climate Outreach and Information Networl (COIN)
- Displacement Solutions
- Interview by Frank Biermann and Saleemul Huq in IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis
- The Center for International Environmental Law, Global Warming and Human Rights
- Climate and Disaster Governance
- Colloquium Environmental Disasters and Law
- Oregon State University/ Institute for Water and Watersheds: Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation
- Council on Foreign Relations
- E&E Publishing, ClimateWire, Special Report on Bangladesh and climate migration
- Living Space for Environmental Refugees
- International Organization for Migration
- United Nations University: Institute for Environment and Human Security
- Reuters, Tip Sheet
- Society for International Development, Vijverberg Session, Climate Change and Migration
- Society of Environmental Journalists. Tip Sheet
- Global Collaborative: Climate Change, Forced Migration and Refugees
- Friends of the Earth Australia
Population Environment Research
- FES Globalization
- "Public appeal for immediate consideration of ‘climate migrants”
- UNFPA: Expert meeting on population dynamics and climate change
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Equity and Justice Working Group, Bangladesh
- Climate Change Network Nigeria (CCN Nigeria) [pdf]
- IRIN Humanitarian News and Analysis, climate change in-depth
- Political artist, Hermann Josef Hack, public interventions with climate refugee miniature camp
- Call to ensure rights of climate change induced forced migrants
- Africa-wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues (ACCID)
- Insight Story: We aren’t refugees
- The Hodgkinson Group
- 1989-Small States Conference Sea Level Rise
- Refugees International: A Powerful Voice for Lifesaving Action
- Nature Reports Website: Report disperses migration myth
- Environment, Forced Migration & Social Vulnerability, Conference, Bonn 2008
- Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Analysis
- News 24.com: Confusion over Climate Migrants
- Environment News Service: Barcelone Climate Talks
- AFP: Maldives face life ad ‘climate refugees’
- Kenya readies for Copenhagen talks
- Inner City Press
- bdnews24.com: PM Seeks EU support for climate refugees
- Reuters, AlterNet: Climate migration will grow as changes take hold
Recent developments on Climate Refugees
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Environment article on climate refugees
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