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	Financing Responses to Climate Migration: The Unique Role of Multilateral Development Banks Huang, L.; Sohst, R.; Le Coz, C. Migration Policy Institute MPI (2022) CC View PDF(23) Download (8) Add to my MEDBOX As climate change increasingly contributes to migration and displacement in many parts of the world, there is a pressing need for measures that build resilience and prevent displacement as well as those that help climate-affected people move to safety and support receiving communities. Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are critical, if sometimes overlooked, players because of their ability to invest in large-scale projects that contribute to sustainable development, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. This report explores the unique role of MDBs in the climate finance landscape and highlights opportunities for migration, humanitarian, and other key actors to partner with them on projects that effectively target climate-related migration and displacement. After reviewing the evidence on the complex linkages between climate and mobility, the report examines MDBs’ climate-related work to date, challenges they face to scaling up these efforts, and strategies to begin to address hurdles. These recommendations include learning from past MDB investments that have touched on climate migration, funding data collection or sharing to strengthen understanding of climate migration trends, and developing partnerships to support policy and project development, financing, and implementation Tags: report, governance, international cooperation, migration, Source: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research
	State of the Climate in Asia 2021 World Meteorological Organization WMO Reliefweb OCHA Services (2022) CC View PDF(23) Download (12) Add to my MEDBOX The State of the Climate in Asia 2021 report highlighted how climate change impacts are wreaking an ever-increasing human, financial and environmental toll, worsening food insecurity and poverty and holding back sustainable development Tags: Climate Change, report, agricutlure, food and nutrition, disasters, drought, flood, water, health, Source: https://reliefweb.int/report/world/state
	Climate-induced migration and health issues - A toolkit for policymakers International Institute for Environment and Developmend (IIED) OCHA Services Reliefweb (2022) C2 View PDF(28) Download (10) Add to my MEDBOX Loss and damage is an urgent concern, driven by the increasingly harmful effects of climate change. Communities are experiencing new types and forms of climate impact, of higher frequency and intensity, which they are not equipped to handle. These impacts compel vulnerable communities to migrate to find alternative livelihoods and ways to survive. But migration generates grave socioeconomic consequences. Through case study analysis from 12 regions in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, this paper explores how climate change-induced migration is creating physical health, mental health and wellbeing issues — both for migrants and the families they leave behind. It then provides recommendations to policymakers on how to strengthen policy, planning and response frameworks to support communities manage health and wellbeing risks created by climate impacts Tags: Health and climate change, migration, toolkit, guidelines, Source: https://reliefweb.int/attachments/352412
	Guiding Principles for Children on the Move in the Context of Climate Change UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2022) CC View PDF(65) Download (24) Add to my MEDBOX The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Georgetown University, and the United Nations University have today launched new guidelines to provide the first-ever global policy framework that will help protect, include, and empower children on the move in the context of climate change. The Guiding Principles for Children on the Move in the Context of Climate Change provides a set of 9 principles that address the unique and layered vulnerabilities of children on the move both internally and across borders as a result of the adverse impacts of climate change. Currently, most child-related migration policies do not consider climate and environmental factors, while most climate change policies overlook the unique needs of children. The guidelines note that climate change is intersecting with existing environmental, social, political, economic, and demographic conditions contributing to people’s decisions to move. In 2020 alone, nearly 10 million children were displaced in the aftermath of weather-related shocks. With around one billion children – nearly half of the world’s 2.2 billion children – living in 33 countries at high risk of the impacts of climate change, millions more children could be on the move in the coming years. Developed in collaboration with young climate and migration activists, academics, experts, policymakers, practitioners, and UN agencies, the guiding principles are based on the globally ratified Convention on the Rights of the Child and are further informed by existing operational guidelines and frameworks. Recommendations for safeguarding the rights and well-being of children regardless of their location or migration status. The guiding principles provide national and local governments, international organizations and civil society groups with a foundation to build policies that protect children’s rights. The organizations and institutions are calling on governments, local and regional actors, international organizations, and civil society groups to embrace the guiding principles to help protect, include, and empower children on the move in the context of climate change Tags: Children, children on the move, climate change, refugees, child well-being, migration, Source: https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/med
	Migration as Adaptation? K. Vinke; Bergmann, J.; Blocher, J.; et. al. (2021) CC View PDF(57) Download (32) Add to my MEDBOX The discourse on climate change and migration has shifted from labelling migration merely as a consequence of climate impacts, to describing it as a form of human adaptation. This article explores the adaptation framing of the climate change and migration nexus and highlights its shortcomings and advantages. While for some groups, under certain circumstances migration can be an effective form of adaptation, for others it leads to increased vulnerabilities and a poverty spiral, reducing their adaptive apacities. Non-economic losses connected to a change of place further challenge the notion of successful adaptation. Even when migration improves the situation of a household, it may conceal the lack of action on climate change adaptation from national governments or the international community. Given the growing body of evidence on the diverse circumstances and outcomes of migration in the context of climate change, we distinguish between reactive and proactive migration and argue for a precise differentiation in the academic debat Tags: Migration, adaption, Climate Change, Source: https://watermark.silverchair.com/mnaa02
	Children uprooted in a changing climate UN Children's Fund UNICEF (2021) C_UNICEF View PDF(64) Download (26) Add to my MEDBOX Tags: Children, Climate Change, health, Mental Health, Migration, Impact, Source: https://www.unicef.org/media/109711/file
	Climate change-induced migration: a bibliometric review García, J.M.; Caparrós-Martínez J.L., Rueda-López N., et al. (2021) CC View PDF(65) Download (30) Add to my MEDBOX Globalization and Health (2021) 17:74 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-021-00722-3 Tags: planetary health, training, education, resource platform, climate change, migration, Source: https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcen
	The World Climate and Security Report 2021 Brock, S.; Barrett, O.L.; Birkman, L.; et al. International Military Council on Climate and Security (2021) CC View PDF(46) Download (25) Add to my MEDBOX The World Climate and Security Report (WCSR) 2021 from the Expert Group of the International Military Council on Climate and Security is a global assessment of the security dimensions of a changing climate and effective means to address them. It is intended to inform timely climate and security policy and action, and builds upon the analysis in the first WCSR, released in February 2020 Tags: Climate Change, security, Source: https://imccs.org/wp-content/uploads/202
	Walking into the Eye of the Storm: How the climate crisis is driving child migration and displacement Clarey, T.; Jiwanji, A.; Selby, S. (2021) CC View PDF(76) Download (32) Add to my MEDBOX Discussions about climate change often focus on the future, but millions of children are experiencing its devastating impacts now. The scale of the crisis is huge, and growing fast. It is children that will bear the brunt of climate change, yet its impact on them is understudied, their voices are not being heard, and current solutions are woefully inadequate. It is a perfect storm that we must stop in its path – before it is too late. Available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabi Tags: Climate Change, climate crisis, Migration, Child Health, Displacement, Source: https://resourcecentre.savethechildren.n
	Groundswell: Acting on Internal Climate Migration. Overview World Bank (2021) CC View PDF(71) Download (25) Add to my MEDBOX his sequel to the Groundswell report includes projections and analysis of internal climate migration for three new regions: East Asia and the Pacific, North Africa, and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Qualitative analyses of climate-related mobility in countries of the Mashreq and in Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are also provided. This new report builds on the scenario-based modeling approach of the previous Groundswell report from 2018, which covered Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America. The two reports’ combined findings provide, for the first time, a global picture of the potential scale of internal climate migration across the six regions, allowing for a better understanding of how slow-onset climate change impacts, population dynamics, and development contexts shape mobility trends. Available in English, French, Arabic, Spanis Tags: Migration, Climate Change, population growth, mobility, Source: https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/hand