climate refugee

what’s a climate refugee

Climate change is forcing people to leave their homes from their countries. They are called climate refugees.

In 2018, the United Nations, UNEP and UNEP plan to have 250 million climate refugees in the world by 2050 and call for global and solidarity-based governance 10. By the same time horizon (2050) Christian Aid estimates that at least one billion people will have to migrate around the world, more than half of them to adapt to global warming or to escape certain consequences.

– 645 million would migrate for energy reasons,
– 50 million due to conflicts and human rights violations (which may be exacerbated by deforestation, lack of water and the continued loss of arable land).

The main and “classic” causes of the phenomenon are desertification, deforestation, salinization, erosion, aridification, a natural disaster, or various problems of toxicity of the soil, air or water (particularly by salinization) which lead to the disappearance of vital resources (water, food) and epidemics and/or famines.

According to a World Bank report, climate change will turn more than 143 million people into climate refugees, seeking to escape poor harvests, water shortages and rising sea levels.

Most of this demographic change will take place in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America

Fiji Islands threatened with extinction. The reason is symbolic since they are threatened by the rise in water levels caused by global warming.

This paradise for wealthy holidaymakers hides a different reality for the 870,000 Fijians living on these atolls swept by increasingly frequent and violent cyclones.