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"Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement. A UNHCR perspective. "
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | Guterres António |The process of climate change – and the multiple natural disasters it will engender – will in all certainty add to the scale and complexity of human mobility and displacement. The international community has focused thus far on the scientific aspects of climate change, with the aim of understanding the processes at play and mitigating the impact of human activity. Yet climate change is equally a humanitarian problem and challenge. As such it is of direct interest also to humanitarian agencies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (...)
Dégradation de l’environnement | Migration | -
"Forced Displacement in the Context of Climate Change : Challenges for States under International Law"
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | NRC | UNHCR | mai 2009Ce travail est une réponse au plan d’action de Bali. Il étudie la protection des personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur Etat ou vers d’autres Etats en raison du changement climatique. Extraits p 4 : « The many millions forcibly displaced by sudden and slow-onset disasters will require substantial protection and humanitarian assistance because displacement creates specific new, or exacerbates pre-existing, vulnerabilities. Particular challenges for the displaced as well as for the authorities concerned arise in the context of evacuations before and during disasters, relocations because return to the original place of residence is not possible or too dangerous and, more (...)
International | Droit | Changement climatique et migration | IPCC | internally displaced persons | plan d’action de Bali | IDP - Internally displaced person | -
"Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement : a UNHCR perspective"
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | Guterres António |The process of climate change – and the multiple natural disasters it will engender – will in all certainty add to the scale and complexity of human mobility and displacement. Thus far the international community has focused primarily on the scientific aspects of climate change, with the aim of understanding the processes at play and mitigating the impact of human activity. Yet climate change is likely to pose humanitarian problems and challenges. As such it is of direct interest to humanitarian agencies, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Ce document de travail étudie les différents scénarios de déplacement, les (...)
Droit | Changement climatique et migration | Adaptation | Politique publique | Déplacement de population | Recommandations | Prévention | -
"Climate change, migration and displacement : impacts, vulnerability and adaptation options"
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | UNU-EHS | OIM | NRC | UNHCR | 2009p 2 : « IOM, UNHCR, UNU and NRC therefore compiled this joint submission with the aim of bringing the migration and displacement implications of climate change to the attention of the UNFCCC and requesting that these implications are considered in the 15th Conference of Parties agreement. This submission is based on the assembly document text (FCCC/AWGLCA/2008/16/Rev.1) and contains concrete text proposals in order to indicate the gaps relating to migration and displacement in the previous draft and facilitate the inclusion of these issues in subsequent versions of the draft agreement. Climate-change related migration and displacement is a topic of relevance for (...)
Sciences politiques | Droit | Changement climatique et migration | Adaptation | internally displaced persons | plan d’action de Bali | Vulnérabilité | IDP - Internally displaced person | -
"Environmental degradation and population displacement"
Publications de recherche | Textes académiques | Lonergan Steve | Swain Ashok | 1999The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in the 1993 State of the World’s Refugees, identified four root causes of refugee flows. These were political instability, economic tensions, ethnic conflict, and environmental degradation. The claim that environmental degradation was a root cause of refugee flows was inspired by a number of articles suggesting a link between environmental degradation and population movement, and a recognition that the numbers of displaced persons internationally were much larger than indicated by the statistics on refugee (...)
Dégradation de l’environnement | Déplacement de population | -
"Environmental Refugees - A Misnomer or A Reality ?"
Publications de recherche | Textes académiques | Flintan Fiona | mars 2001In the 1993 ’State of the World’s Refugees’, UNHCR identified four root causes of refugee flows - political instability ; economic tensions ; ethnic conflict ; and environmental degradation (Lonergan, 1998). More recently, Matlou (1999) suggested the following, in an Africa-specific context - the effects of past struggles for decolonisation, majority rule [...]
International | Dégradation de l’environnement | Migration |télécharger
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"Climate Change and Internal Displacement : A Contribution to the Discussion"
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | Ferris Elizabeth | février 2011While there is growing interest in the issue of climate change and displacement, there doesn’t seem to be consensus about the ‘entry point’ into the debate. Many have tried to estimate the potential scale of displacement, with widely varying results resulting from different assumptions and methodologies. Others have analyzed the legal gaps, particularly for those who cross international borders because of the effects of climate change. Still others have sought to analyze the potential for increased conflict resulting from the effects of climate (...)
Brookings Institution | Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement | internally displaced persons | -
"Environmental Refugees : Myth or Reality ?"
Publications de recherche | Textes académiques | Richard Black | 2001As the UN Refugee Convention passes its 50th anniversary, the nature and scope of the ‘international refugee regime’ continues to be a matter of debate. The last decade has seen a number of arguments to extend the regime, and/or the Convention. Most recent amongst these is the growing consensus that ‘internally-displaced persons’(IDPs) should be brought under some form of international protection and/or assistance (Holbrooke, 2000). Another strong group of candidates for inclusion has been those displaced by development projects (Cernea and McDowell, (...)
Dégradation de l’environnement | Migration | Approche critique | -
"Note Climate Change and Statelessness : an Overview"
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | OIM | NRC | UNHCR | 2009This note relates to the implementation of paragraph 1(c) of the Bali Action Plan and requests UNFCCC negotiators to ensure recognition in the follow-up Protocol of the need for early action to prevent statelessness as outlined below, and to permit funding for adaptation to be made available for such early actions.
Changement climatique et migration | -
Summary of Deliberations on Climate Change and Displacement
Documents institutionnels | Documents de travail d’institutions | UNHCR | avril 2011UNHCR organized an expert roundtable on climate change and displacement, which was held in Bellagio, Italy, from 22 to 25 February 2011, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. The discussion was informed by a number of research papers.Participants included 19 experts from 15 countries, drawn from governments, NGOs, academia and international organizations. The roundtable is one in a series of events organized to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (“1951 Convention”) and the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness. The following summary does not necessarily represent the (...)
Changement climatique | Déplacement de population | Convention sur les réfugiés 1951 | -
Climate change and displacement
Publications de recherche | Numéro de Revue | octobre 2008In response to growing pressures on landscapes and livelihoods, people are moving, communities are adapting. This issue of FMR debates the numbers, the definitions and the modalities – and the tension between the need for research and the need to act. Thirty-eight articles by UN, academic, international and local actors explore the extent of the potential displacement crisis, community adaptation and coping strategies, and the search for solutions. The issue also includes a range of articles on other aspects of forced migration. This issue has been published in English, French, Spanish and (...)
Changement climatique et migration | Sécurité humaine | UNEP | Changement climatique | OIM | Migrations environnementale | IISD |
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