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New Expert Report Finds Climate Change is Driver of Migration
15 June, 2009
The report titled "In Search of Shelter: Mapping the Effects of Climate Change on Human Migration and Displacement" by Dr Koko Warner from UNU-EHS and Dr Charles Ehrhart from CARE International, highlights that climate change is already contributing to migration and displacement and that there will be tens of millions of migrants within the next few years. These findings were presented to the delegates and the international media at the Bonn Climate Change Talks.
The new report is published by UNU-EHS, CARE International and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the World Bank, Social Dimension of Climate Change Team.
At an official side-event on 2 June 2009, co-organised by UNU-EHS, the two authors, Dr Warner and Dr Ehrhart, shared their alarming findings with the delegates. They underlined the importance for the issue of environmental migration to be included in the successive Kyoto Protocol.
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See New York Times article on the report.
Download the report In Search of Shelter.
Find the CARE International press release in English and German.
Official website of CARE International.
See the international press coverage here.
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