Sentence examples for climate displacement from inspiring English sources
Alice Thomas is climate displacement programme manager for Refugees International.
But recently, changes in rainfall patterns and rising temperatures have led to a disturbing form of population movement: climate displacement.
Climate displacement may not fit easily within existing definitions or categories, but that does not mean the international community can ignore it.
Major donors such as the US and EU, along with regional governments and aid agencies, must do more to understand and respond to climate displacement, whether it occurs in the Sahel or other parts of the globe.
Leckie's organisation focuses its work in five countries – Bangladesh, Colombia, Fiji, Panama and the Solomon Islands – but said climate displacement was a global problem, even in wealthy nations such as the US where people in Alaska have had to move and Boston faces a future of being a "city of canals" because of sea level rises.
The White House's Council on Environmental Quality will also co-host a "Symposium on Climate Displacement, Migration, and Relocation" in December 2016 in Hawaii. .
A draft text proposed "a climate change displacement coordination facility".
Ordinary people need to put pressure on their governments to deal with climate change displacement.
"Australia does not see the creation of the climate change displacement coordination facility as the most effective or efficient way to progress meaningful international action to address the impacts of climate change," a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman said.
A previous draft of the deal to be thrashed out by nations included a "climate change displacement coordination facility" that would provide "organised migration and planned relocation", as well as compensation, to people fleeing rising sea levels, extreme weather and ruined agriculture.
She described the current moment in history as "a moment of damage control" — not just as a consequence of refugees displaced by conflict but what's likely to be a growing wave of climate change displacement in the coming years.
