Climate Refugees

Editorial Focus

Understanding the crisis of humanitarian action in the age of climate change

Whether this is the “age of crises”,[1]Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, States of Fragility 2022, OECD Publishing, 2022, https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/development/states-of-fragility-2022_c7fedf5e-en polycrisis or permacrisis, the idea that we are living in...

Clara Egger - Fernando Espada

Forum

Climate change: humanitarian aid at a crossroads

Published on 6 December 2024 So what does a world at +2°C mean for international aid and development? With this question in mind, Groupe URD, in partnership with Humanitarian Alternatives,...

Damien Guillou

Focus

Environmental Migrations: future prospects

With the expression “climate refugees” two recurrent headlines are brought together: migrants and climate change. They converge to bring the issue of forced population movements to a level never attained...

Paul Chiron

Focus

The difficult legal consideration of climate migrants

Arjun Claire and Jérôme Élie invite us to the arcane debates that led to the adoption of the two Global Compacts on Migration and Refugees. If these texts express a...

Arjun Claire - Jérôme Élie

Transitions

Honduras, Lebanon, Nepal: civil society on the front lines of natural disasters and their daily consequences

How does society deal with the cascading consequences of natural disasters? In this collaborative article, the authors highlight the active participation of local civil societies, often the first and last...

Arjun Bhattarai - Bibbi Abruzzini - José Ramón Ávila - Sarah Strack - Ziad Abdel Samad