Displacement related to climate change and disasters: Challenges and opportunities DIHAD 2015 Session 2: Environmental Protection and Climate Change – Opportunities 24 March 2015
IDMC is the world’s leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement, providing a solid evidence base through which to inform policy and operational decisions that improve IDPs’ lives. We do this by monitoring all displacement situations, providing quantitative estimates of the number of IDPs worldwide and disseminating information and analysis relevant to policy development. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Displacement in the climate change agenda UNFCCC Cancun Adaptation Framework: “…14. Invites all Parties to enhance action on adaptation under the Cancun Adaptation Framework, taking into account their common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities, and specific national and regional development priorities, objectives and circumstances, by undertaking, inter alia, the following: (f) Measures to enhance understanding, coordination and cooperation with regard to climate change induced displacement, migration and planned relocation, where appropriate, at the national, regional and international levels…”
Displacement related to weather and geophysical hazards (1970 – 2012)
Components of disaster-related displacement risk
Displacement risk drivers: Climate change Interlocking vulnerabilities of small island states
Displacement risk drivers: Population growth in hazard-prone areas
Displacement risk drivers: Rapid, unplanned urbanisation
Displacement risk drivers: Conflict, especially conflict combined with natural hazards
Case study: Drought-displacement risk for pastoralists in northern Kenya, southern Ethiopia and south-central Somalia
Percentage of pastoralists displaced
What needs to be done? 1.Innovate out of the problem: Focus on present to fix the future 2. Where appropriate, coordinate Disaster Risk Reduction, adaptation, humanitarian and development frameworks 3. Address evidence and knowledge gaps
Can we do all this? Yes, we can. Thank you.