Articles for Climate Refugees

Protecting climate refugees requires a legal definition
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Protecting climate refugees requires a legal definition

Al Jazeera  

While there is much talk about climate migration, there is still no legal framework to protect people displaced by climate disasters. My thoughts ran quickly to the many people displaced by climate change I knew: the Ecuadoran refugees who arrived in New York, seeking sanctuary from environmental turmoil at home, the women in the Sundarban islands of West Bengal facing …

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Opinion: Climate change is worsening the world’s refugee crisis. Here’s one way leaders can help
1 year, 5 months ago

Opinion: Climate change is worsening the world’s refugee crisis. Here’s one way leaders can help

LA Times  

Families displaced by severe floods take refuge at a relief camp in Dadu district of Sindh Province in southern Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. The establishment of a fund to help poor nations getting hit hard by extreme weather events was one of the most significant decisions to come out of U.N. climate talks in the last 30 years Most …

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This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change
1 year, 7 months ago

This is what the world will look like in 100 years if we do nothing to stop climate change

Salon  

Aside from its meteorological effects, climate change is also wreaking havoc on our minds: Younger generations are bitterly denouncing their elders in climate protests and mental illnesses are spreading as people feel powerless to avert catastrophe. Related We now know how badly our cities will be flooded due to climate change Food will be scarcer As far as eating is …

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For climate migrants in Bangladesh, town offers new life
2 years, 4 months ago

For climate migrants in Bangladesh, town offers new life

Associated Press  

MONGLA, Bangladesh — The 29-year-old Monira Khatun was devastated after her husband abandoned her suddenly. “My parents’ home was gone to the river for erosion, we had no land to cultivate.” She ended up working at a factory in a special economic zone that employs thousands of climate refugees — like Khatun — in the southwestern town of Mongla, where …

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The UK 'climate refugees' who won't leave
2 years, 7 months ago

The UK 'climate refugees' who won't leave

BBC  

The UK 'climate refugees' who won't leave Getty Images From 2054, Gwynedd Council has said the Welsh village of Fairbourne will no longer be inhabitable. "The latest forecasts predict that it would not be safe or sustainable to defend Fairbourne beyond 2054," says a spokesperson for Gwynedd Council. The council's decision "has destroyed people's lives and livelihoods", says Eaves. Isabelle …

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Kuttanad’s climate refugees
2 years, 7 months ago

Kuttanad’s climate refugees

The Hindu  

The watermarks on the shabby, cracked wall of the house of Radhamani, 75, at Meenappally in Alappuzha’s Kainakary grama panchayat bear testimony to the ravages of recurring floods and bund breaches. However, for the people of Kuttanad who live across 62 grama panchayats in Alappuzha, Kottayam and Pathanamthitta, recurring floods, torrential downpours, and intrusion of saline water from the sea …

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Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants
2 years, 8 months ago

Photos: The Bangladesh town offering new life to climate migrants

Al Jazeera  

Monira Khatun was devastated after her husband suddenly abandoned her. “My parents’ home was gone to the river for erosion, we had no land to cultivate.” She ended up working at a factory in a special economic zone that employs thousands of climate refugees – like Khatun – in the southwestern town of Mongla, where Bangladesh’s second-largest seaport is located. …

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The British coastal communities doomed to become climate refugees
4 years, 3 months ago

The British coastal communities doomed to become climate refugees

Al Jazeera  

How coastal villages in the UK are dealing with an uncertain future, as their homes are lost to rising seas. “Unlike flooding, erosion is a permanent change which is quite hard to address,” said Dr Charlie Thompson, manager of the South East Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme at the Channel Coastal Observatory. “If you take this house away from me, and …

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