Refugees

ISSUES

Climate refugees

The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) defines « climate refugees as people who have to temporarily or permanently leave their homes because of a clear degradation of their environment (for human or natural reasons) which greatly affects their way of life and/ or which greatly jeopardises their quality of life ».
History
Millions of people have already been moved for reasons linked to the environment. The disastrous floods in 1998 made many people homeless and the Chernobyl disaster forced over 100 000 people to move. Africa's serious droughts made thousands of people flee to neighbouring countries.

NEWS

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MEXICO - Disputes over illegal Mexican immigrants are already heating up in the United States, thanks in part to a new Arizona...

PANAMA - Panama (Reuters) - Rising seas from global warming, coming after years of coral reef destruction, are forcing thousands...

INDONESIA - PORONG - Quatre ans après, une éruption de boue visqueuse continue de dévaster une région industrielle de l'île de Java...

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DEBATES

The Secret of Sea Level Rise: It Will Vary Greatly by Region

Michael D. Lemonick

For at least two decades now, climate scientists have been telling us that CO2 and other human-generated greenhouse gases are...

A rebuttal of the deterministic perspective on environmental migration from small island states

Though the reality of environmentally-induced population...

A Citizen Guide to Climate Refugees

Climate change is already having disastrous effects on...

FOCUS

Environmental refugees

Tebua Tarawa and Abanuea, in the Republic of Kiribati were the first atolls flooded by global warming. They were in the Pacific Ocean and disappeared beneath the water in 1999. But they were uninhabited. As sea...

VIDEOS

08/04/2010	Le delta du Nil doit faire face aux défis du changement climatique. La...	05/02/2010	François Gemenne, researcher at the IDDR, explains some of the...
30/12/2009	Boobu Tioram, a resident of the Pacific island of Kirabati, took time out...	13/12/2009	Mohamed Aslam, Minister of the Environnment for the Maldives tells us: "We...

GREEN TIPS

Intelligent electricity

In Washington State, an electrical network offers some 300 homes an intelligent energy supply. The principle...

INDICATORS

Population
Carbon dioxide emissions
Desertification risks

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