Archive for the ‘climate’ Category

Climate change and displacement: New resources

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Image from the cover of Forced Migration Review issue 31, Laptop in a desert. Photo credit: Adapted from an illustration by Stanislav Ashmarin, Photo on computer screen: Sudanese refugees, Ethiopia. UNHCR/N Behring

Increasingly, there is widespread recognition that the environment, people’s lives and livelihoods are being transformed as a result of climate change. This has been linked to increased levels of environmental and weather-related disasters and higher levels of displacement. The RSC has produced a set of resources which debate the issues - including numbers, definitions and modalities - and the tension between the need for research and the need to act. Prepared to complement Forced Migration Review 31 and the FMO Research Guide on Climate Change and Displacement, FMO also hosts a new Resource Summary on the topic which provides links to many key resources, websites and documents related to climate change, environmental change, disasters and forced migration.

Podcast: Human Displacement and Climate Change in International Law

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Photograph of Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Hague, Netherlands. May 2008. Photo: Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

This podcast was recorded by Radio Netherlands Worldwide at the first of The Hague Debates on Thursday, 22 May 2008 in the Peace Palace and is entitled ‘When home gets too hot: Human Displacement and Climate Change in International Law’. The debate features Professor Roger Zetter, Director of the Refugee Studies Centre.