Migration, Environment & Climate Change

As climate change is impacting various regions of the globe, communities are increasingly impacted and have to adapt to sustain their livlihoods. Migration can potentially be an option or a nessesity for families and communities facing climate risks. For example, draughts may have negative impacts on agriculture when farmers can no longer sustain food production or communities may be displaced by sudden on set disasters such as floods or typhoons, forced to temporaily or permanently leave their homes.

Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy aims to:

(i) Help to understand the linkages between migration and climate changethrough a variety of research meathods

(ii) Inform and advise governments and other stakeholders on policies how to address both the challenges and opportunities of environmental migration

(iii) Carry out research and train stakeholders in 6 countries (Dominican Republic, Haiti, Kenya, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea and Viet Nam) where migration and climate change are already interlinked     Project objectives and activities:

Environmental change is one of the major concerns for the international community. It is commonly understood that due to changes in the environment, more and more people will migrate in coming years, in particular within and between developing countries. At the same time, migration will most likely have a growing impact on the environment. The effects of these changes will vary and the impact will differ between each region of the world. Still the issue is not entirely understood and policy oriented research on environmental migration is therefore needed.

The 6 countries mentioned above have been chosen to illustrate how different forms of mobility (migration, displacement, and relocation) may affect the environment and adaptation to climate change. The MECLEP project therefore fills an important gap as it is a policy oriented programme of work based on three main components of activities:

The knowledge gained through MECLEP-research is widely disemminated via the Global online information-sharing platform (Environmental Migration Portal: http://environmentalmigration.iom.int/). MECLEP produces a variety of different publications on the topic, drawing on it’s original research.

Where Your Contribution Goes:

Your contribution will allow the publication of the cutting-edge final report.With your contributions its publication is foreseen for April 2016 in English, followed by French and Spanish.

In particular, your contribution will allow new policy briefs that will focus on existing national approaches to focus on migration, climate change, and the protection of people in Turkey, Brazil, Sao Tomé and Principe, Morocco and Azerbaijan.   About the campaigner:

The project is implemented by the International Organization for Migration(IOM) through a consortium of six research partners (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France, Bielefeld University, Germany, Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM), University of Liège, Belgium,Research Center on Citizenship, Migration and the City (CIMIC), Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO),Costa Rica, Institute for the Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), United Nations University, Germany).

Project information leaflet:

http://environmentalmigration.iom.int/sites/default/files/MECLEP%20leaflet_EN.pdf

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