International law doesn’t protect people fleeing environmental disaster – here’s how it could

Why the UN Refugee Convention should be updated to protect climate migrants.

Morgiane Noel, PhD Candidate in Law, Trinity College Dublin • conversation
March 13, 2023 • ~7 min

Why we should abandon the concept of the 'climate refugee'

When climate change is used to explain migration, social inequality is naturalised.

W. Andrew Baldwin, Associate Professor in Human Geography, Durham University • conversation
Aug. 23, 2022 • ~8 min

How ‘managed retreat’ from climate change could revitalize rural America: Revisiting the Homestead Act

If rural communities plan carefully – and some already are – they can reinvent themselves as the perfect homes for people fleeing wildfire and hurricane zones.

Daniel R. Brooks, Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto • conversation
Oct. 18, 2021 • ~8 min

Climate migration: what the research shows is very different from the alarmist headlines

Climate migrants still tend to move to places they know or have connections to through their social networks.

Ingrid Boas, Associate Professor, Wageningen University • conversation
Oct. 7, 2020 • ~7 min

How many people will migrate due to rising sea levels? Our best guesses aren't good enough

Rising sea levels may trap more people than are displaced.

Shouro Dasgupta, Lecturer in Environmental Economics, Università Ca'Foscari • conversation
Sept. 25, 2020 • ~7 min

Coronavirus shows we are not at all prepared for the security threat of climate change

If the pandemic is a sort of climate 'stress-test', the world is failing it.

Kate Guy, PhD Candidate and Lecturer in International Relations, University of Oxford • conversation
April 15, 2020 • ~9 min

Conronavirus shows we are not at all prepared for the security threat of climate change

The pandemic is a sort of climate 'stress-test', and the world is failing it.

Kate Guy, PhD Candidate and Lecturer in International Relations, University of Oxford • conversation
April 15, 2020 • ~9 min

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