Climate Refugees
It is now widely accepted in the scientific community that climate change will lead to both incremental and rapid ecological change and disruption. The impacts of climate change, which include increased droughts, desertification, and sea level rise, along with the more frequent occurrence of extreme weather events, will lead to an increased number of climate refugees around the world. In determining which nations are most likely to encounter the displacement of citizens, a complex assessment of the nations geographic vulnerability to climate change, as well its social, economic and political structures must be considered.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change there are regions of the world that have already been declared as being extremely vulnerable to climate change. These include: low-lying and small island developing states and the North Africa. Although climate change is a global phenomenon that will impact upon critical
life supporting systems such as weather and hydrology cycles, FoE Australia is regionally concerned with the Pacific, including Micronesia and Polynesia, and has therefore focused upon the very real potential of climate refugees in this region.
Read more in the "Citizen's Guide to Climate Refugees" [here]
Includes:
Fact Sheet One: Climate change and Historical Emissions
Fact Sheet Two: What Causes People to Become Climate Refugees?
Fact Sheet Three: Case Study of Tuvalu and New Zealand: Pacific Access Category (PAC)
Fact Sheet Four: Predictions of climate refugees to 2050
Fact Sheet Five: Policy decisions that need to be made
Fact Sheets Six: What you can do about climate justice and climate refugees
Climate Change, Pacific Islands and
Sea-Level Rise
Home to 22 Island states, with a combined population of approximately 7 million people the Pacific is considered one of the most culturally diverse regions of the world. Like many Indigenous peoples, Pacific Islanders have been living in this
region for over 10,000 years.
Whilst they contribute the least to global greenhouse gas emissions, emitting an estimated 0.06 percent of the world’s
emissions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has declared them as being three times more at risk to climate change than countries of the global north.
Climate Refugees: A Guide to the Issues ...
The information contained on this page is excerpted from: "A Citizen's Guide to Climate Refugees " 2005
Prepared by FoEA Climate Justice Collective.
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