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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CHINA - BEIJING - An additional 300,000 people will be forced to move from their homes because of China's controversial Three...

SPAIN - BARCELONE - Une "conspiration du silence" des Etats concernés entoure le sort des réfugiés ou des déplacés climatiques,...

GREECE - ATHENES - Un accord lors du sommet de Copenhague est indispensable pour éviter une accélération des migrations forcées...

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DEBATES

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

François Gemenne

Though the reality of environmentally-induced population displacements in small island states cannot be ignored, describing...

A Citizen Guide to Climate Refugees

Climate change is already having disastrous effects on...

Environmental Refugees, the case for Recognition

The current system for dealing with refugees is based 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

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...	25/05/2009	Les Maldives sont menacées par le changement climatique, notamment la...

GREEN TIPS

The survival of Tuvalu

Under the impetus of Liliane Le Gallic and her program « Small is Beautiful», two biogas installations, a...

INDICATORS

Population
Carbon dioxide emissions
Desertification risks

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