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"Governments Urged To Confront Effects Of Climate Crisis On Migrants"

"Experts say extreme weather is a growing danger to displaced people and could force more to flee homes".

"Governments must get to grips with the links between the climate crisis and the plight of migrants around the world, experts have said, as increasingly extreme weather is a mounting danger to already vulnerable displaced people, and is potentially pushing more people to flee their homes.

Migrants and displaced people number more than 100 million around the world, mainly in developing countries, and are among the populations most at risk from extreme weather.

However, little work has been done on addressing the plight of migrants afflicted by climate breakdown, or on the risk that more extremes of weather will push more people into moving. The subject received little mention at the Cop27 UN climate summit in Egypt late last year, and experts are hoping for greater focus in 2023."

Fiona Harvey reports for the Guardian January 10, 2023.

Source: Guardian, 01/11/2023