climate refugees

As climate impacts grow, an Indigenous Fijian community weighs what it means to leave.

When the Meghna River swallowed Mohammad Jewel and Arzu Begum’s tin-roofed family home overnight in southern Bangladesh just over a year ago they had no choice but to leave their ancestral village.

Canada, a country which has profited enormously from burning fossil fuels, has a “moral obligation” to people forced to flee rising seas, drought and other plagues of a world on fire, writes columnist Jesse Firempong.

A UN agency has called on Canada to consider the domestic implications of a human rights ruling on climate refugees — the first time a UN body has made this type of determination.

Canadian research is part of an extensive global climate change study that has found billions of the world's poorest people are at risk.

The world is preparing for climate-driven migration in the worst way possible, not by attempting to mitigate and tackle the root causes of climate change, but with increased militarization and tougher immigration policies.

Climate change and the global refugee crisis are inextricably connected. Yet we're ill-prepared we are to deal with the coming climate refugee challenge.