Climate change migrants

Hi readers! Today, we'll be teaching you about climate change migrants, connecting to out ongoing unit of inquiry, about migration.

Climate change migration: Climate change migration occurs when people leave their homes due to extreme weather events, including floods, heat waves, droughts, and wildfires and many more. This form of migration is increasing because the humans have not been able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce the global average temperature rise, which leads to more climate disasters. 

Facts on climate change migrants:

1)  Climate change is imposing intolerable extremes on many parts of the world, threatening the livelihoods of tens of millions of people.

2)  Many advocates say that climate change migrants lack many important protections afforded to other groups, such as refugees. Governments are responsible for any internal climate migrants, but there are few instances in which governments are obligated to protect those crossing borders. 

3) Latin America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa are among the regions are the regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

4) Already, some individual governments and regional groups are moving forward with more concrete measures, such as Argentina’s humanitarian visa and the Asia-Pacific’s framework on climate mobility, which is currently being developed.

Here is an image of few climate change migrants suffering at a displacement camp: