Environmental Refugees and Climate Migration

Getting Started

1. 5 facts on climate migrants from United Nations University 

2. Climate change and disaster displacement from UNHCR

3. Climate change is already fueling global migration. PBS, 2022

4. Getting started: Our 20 minute introduction to climate change and migration, Climate and Migration Coalition

Building Your Knowledge and Understanding

1. How-to Guide for Environmental Refugees from Our World - United Nations University

2. Climate Refugees definition: can we define a climate refugee? from Climate and Migration Coalition

3. What is climate migration? from Mashable

4.  Climate Refugee from National Geographic: Climate refugees are people who must leave their homes and communities because of the effects of climate change and global warming. See also: Human migration sparked by wars, disasters, and now climate

5.  How helpful is the term 'climate refugee'? from the Guardian, Aug 2020.

6. The Environmental Migration Portal from the IOM (UN Migration).

7. Gender, Migration, Environment and Climate Change, IOM (UN Migration).

8. Climate Change and Disaster Displacement, UNHCR

9. Climate refugees – the world’s forgotten victims, WEF (World Economic Forum)

10. Climate refugees: The world’s forgotten displacement crisis, Concern Worldwide US, 2021.

11. Climate Refugees, The Third Pole

12. 気候変動と避難 from UNHCR Japan

13. Climate Migration and Equity, NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) 

Climate Refugees and Sea Level Rise

14. The Complicated Truth About Sea Level Rise from Our World - United Nations University

15. Sea Level Rise from National Geographic

16. Has the great climate change migration already begun?  from the Guardian

17. Maldives President: Australia should prepare for climate refugees from Climate Home

18. 水没が懸念される国々～ツバルを通して見る太平洋島嶼国 from 外務省

19. 海面上昇で国が水没する？ 南太平洋のツバルやキリバス the PAGE

Climate Refugees and Desertification

20. Land Degradation, Desertification Might Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within A Decade (desertification) from International Business Times

Climate Refugees and Tsunami

21. Forgotten and unattended: refugees in post-earthquake Japan  from Forced Migration Review 

Climate Refugees and Nuclear Disasters

22. The First Nuclear Refugees Come Home from discover Magazine

23. Nuclear Disasters and Displacement from Our World

24. Japan's Nuclear Refugees from National Georgraphic  原発難民の母子「なぜ福島に帰れないか」、欧州で講演 from オルタナ

25. 福島原発事故「消えた避難者3万人」はどこへ行ってしまったのか  from the Japan Times,Mar 2018 (Japanese article)