Environmental Displacement Resources

Here are some resources on the humanitarian and displacement implications of climate change:

• The Towards Recognition blog provides a summary of the discussions relating to climate change and forced migration at the Bonn climate change talks. Refworld has posted a number of papers prepared for the Bonn talks and other climate-related discussions, including:
  
• IASC: Climate Change, Migration and Displacement: Who Will Be Affected? [text]
• IOM: Climate Change, Migration, and Displacement: Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation Options [text]
• UNHCR: Climate Change and Statelessness: A Overview [text]
• UNHCR: Forced Displacement in the Context of Climate Change: Challenges for States Under International Law [text]
• WHO: Protecting the Health of Vulnerable People from the Humanitarian Consequences of Climate Change and Climate Related Disasters [text]

• The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) attended the Bonn meeting and has a web page detailing its work on climate change and displacement.

• CARE has published a report entitled In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement (May 2009) that offers "empirical evidence from a first-time, multi-continent survey of environmental change and migration."

• ODI sponsored an event in March on the humanitarian aspects of climate change. Audio files of the presentations are available.

(HT: Forced Migration Current Awareness Blog)