Climate Migration The adverse effects of climate change -.A presentation by Asitha Wewaldeniya of Janathakshan Gte.LTD

1. Climate Migration
The adverse effects of climate change
Asitha Weweldeniya –Janathakshan JTE.LTD
Champion #EveryTreeMatters

2. Climate migrants do exits ...
One billion people alive today are migrants, having moved
within or beyond their national borders. They have done so
for a variety of complex reasons, including population
pressure, a lack of economic opportunities, environmental
degradation, and new forms of travel. Combined, these
factors are contributing to human displacement and unsafe
migration on an unprecedented scale. And the levels of both
will only rise as the effects of climate change gradually
erode millions of people’s livelihoods.

3. Climate (environmental) migrant
Persons or groups of persons who, for compelling
reasons of sudden or progressive change in the
environment that adversely affects their lives or living
conditions, are obliged to leave their habitual homes, or
choose to do so, either temporarily permanently, and who
move either within their country or abroad (IOM 2007)

4. Examples
Food supplies are being disrupted in North Africa’s
Sahel region and Central America; and water stress
and scarcity are growing worse in North Africa and the
Middle East. Somalia, for example, is experiencing
more frequent droughts. Iraq is battling more frequent
heat waves. Unprecedented storms and floods have
battered the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico.

5. Key climate challenges
● Increased temperature, reduced rainfall in drylands
○ Water stress, reduced growing season, increased
frequency/intensity of droughts •
● Sea level rise, storm surges, increased intensity of tropical
cyclones
○ increased flood risk in low-lying/coastal regions •
● Increased temperature in temperate regions •
○ longer growing season in temperate regions •
● Developing countries most affected, least resilient?

7. Mrs. Laxmi Bhaya Chandrasekara
(Horowpothana)
Farmer family, 35 years old and has a
child
No paddy cultivate since 2015 &
husband migrated to Vavuniya as a
Lorry driver
Mentally stressed / her only child
aggressive on schooling
No adquate income / then she has to
work

8. Policy initiative and
frameworks

9. 1. NANSEN Initiative (Nansen Conference
on Climate Change and Displacement in
Oslo (June 2011),)
2. Climate Change and Displacement in
the COP21
a. Included in the section on “Loss and
Damage” of the Paris Agreement:
Source: travel.trade.gov

10. A policy framework for migration in
environmental change
Migration as
adaptation
● Relocation as
adaptation
● Building new cities
● Making migration
work
Reduce
● Slowing the rate of
change
● Reducing the impacts
● Increasing resilience
Plan for
● Addressing protection
gaps
● Planning for urban
growth
● Dealing with conflicts
Quotes for illustration purposes only

11. Thank you

12. References :
1. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/climate-change-driving-unsafe-migration-by-erik-solheim-
and-william-l--swing-2018-08