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Public Opinion of Climate Migrants: Understanding What Factors Trigger Anxiety or Support

4 Sep 2024

and hard data are so readily dismissed is that they MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 8 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 9 PUBLIC OPINION OF CLIMATE MIGRANTS PUBLIC OPINION OF CLIMATE MIGRANTS often tell a story of averages across the whole popu- The unpredictability and potential scale and speed lation, whereas impacts are experienced individually of movement related to climate change may in some and accr. [...] For example, the to Loss and Damage to support the communities average person in Nairobi, Kenya, arguably hardest hit by climate change, reached in 2022 at bears little responsibility for the climate- the 27th Conference of Parties to the United Nations change-related droughts that drive people Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 27) across East Africa to move to the city. [...] While it is important to speak predisposed to welcome climate about migration as a potential catalyst of the green migrants, this support must be transition, it is even more important to address the nurtured if it is to be sustained, and real policy and practical limitations that might stand in the way of this. [...] And even where communities Climate migration has become a buzzword are predisposed to welcome climate migrants, this in migration policy, and while this opens up MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 14 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 15 PUBLIC OPINION OF CLIMATE MIGRANTS PUBLIC OPINION OF CLIMATE MIGRANTS space for policy reform, not all migration remittances to disaster-affected home communications and poli. [...] The climate justice numbers of migrants and displaced people movement makes the valid argument that the (or transforming economies and societies countries most vulnerable to climate impacts to cut emissions and adapt to climate are not those that contributed the most to change) will entail costs, and it is important climate change.

Authors

Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan; Lawrence Huang

Pages
23
Published in
United States of America

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