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Climate migration is certain in our future. And we will have to adapt.

Climate change that is partly already inevitable will increase the phenomenon of climate migration. A UN report suggests how to prepare.

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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Second the latest UN climate report, millions more people will be forced to relocate their homes, businesses and lives due to global warming. The experts who wrote the report suggested that viewing climate migration as a good thing rather than a catastrophe is key in our process of adapting to a warmer future.

The wealthiest nations look with terror at climate migration, make it a matter of national security. It is no coincidence that they militarized their borders (in one case even foreseeing robot dog patrols).

However, according to the report I linked to at the beginning of the post, climate migration can be a solution. A positive factor that would allow people to survive by moving away from risks, or families to maintain their standard of living by finding work elsewhere.

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Is climate migration a positive factor?

A premise is a must: this assessment would hold up only if climate migration were well planned. "We can make climate change adaptation part of offshoring if we provide and establish support systems for it," writes David Wrathall. Wrathall, a professor of natural hazards at Oregon State University and lead author of the report, sees no alternative. “Also because the cost of arriving unprepared is simply too high”.

He's right. To be clear, climate migration is already happening. 

Travel to the interior of the planet has been on the rise since 2008. Since then, an average of 20 million people have been forced to flee every year. Floods, severe storms, droughts and forest fires are the main causes, which can force individuals to move or stop climate-dependent practices, such as agriculture. People often migrate from rural areas to adjacent urban centers.

What are the "hot spots" of climate migration?

Climate migration
Source: UN

According to the new report, they are present in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and South America, but small island nations are disproportionately affected due to the consequences of rising sea levels. But climate migration is by no means limited to those parts of the world: in the US, for example, hurricanes, fires and droughts are already shaping people's decisions about where to live, voluntarily or not. 

"Climate migration is inherently neither good nor bad," he says Robert McLeman, professor of environmental studies at Wilfrid Laurier University and other author of the report. "And it works well when it's done legally, respectfully and freely."

McLeman said lowering legal barriers for climate migrants could make it easier for people to find safe housing or a safe, legal job to send money home, an important way to build family resilience. Trying to prevent climate migration, he said, is a losing scenario that leads migrants to attempt illegal border crossings: "It's not good for migrants and certainly not good for the host community," he said.

The rules will also need to be changed

New paradigms will be needed to successfully manage climate migration. First of all, to highlight the importance of mobility in people's lives. In a climate-disrupted world, more people will need to move. Failure to plan for this flexibility could lead to outright tragedy and a frightening spread of poverty.

It will be necessary to invest in basic infrastructure and strengthen social systems such as schools, housing and health care, so as to be able to accommodate authentic traveling populations. If cities grow without planning, they will be full of slums.

Il Global Compact United Nations on Safe, Orderly and Regular Climate Migration sets the standards for preparation. And it makes us understand that there is still a lot of work to do.

Climate migration

We'll make it?

It is impossible to predict the future of climate migration, which depends on many factors such as population growth, governance and other adaptations that may or may not be implemented. According to a forecast, by 2050, 140 million or more people in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America will make inland migration induced by climate change. 

And then?

The long-term outlook is more confusing, but experts know that more severe floods, storms and droughts are likely to become more frequent, forcing even more people to flee their homes, especially in vulnerable regions with limited adaptability.

Let's be clear: migration, although it can mitigate the damage of climate change, is not a good thing to wish for. It is always a long and painful experience whenever possible: and there are so many communities that simply won't have the strength to move.

This is why the reduction of emissions must be pursued more than anything else, while adaptation strategies are being prepared.

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