Fleeing Climate Change
Fleeing Climate Change
Impacts on migration and discplacement
In 2015, alone, climate-related disasters displaced 14.7 million people, a new report from CARE Danmark shows. Unless governments take strong preventive action and invest in adaptation, climate change-related phenomena could push the total number of permanently displaced people as high as 250 million people, between now and 2050.
The report from CARE Danmark is based on the recent research of the linkages between climate change and migration. The report outlines three scenarios for how different levels of temperature increase due to climate change will affect human migration and displacement. It is pertinent that solutions be found at COP22. The world’s leaders must discuss how people affected by climate change can adapt by introducing new knowledge and adjusted agricultural techniques.
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