We can add another voice to the climate change and forced migration debate. Jon Barnett of the University of Melbourne, claims that "no one is currently emigrating from Pacific small island states principally due to climate change."
"In this short interview conducted at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Barnett situates climate change’s potential future impacts within the broader social, political, and economic challenges for residents of small island states, reminding us that there is great physical and political diversity among these islands.
Stressing the mix of pushes and pulls that motivate people to move, Barnett suggests we examine existing patterns of migration to better understand how they will develop in the future. He emphasizes that climate change is most likely to push islanders to move due to declining food production and drinking water availability, rather than sea-level rise—despite the iconic image of lapping waves submerging low-lying countries. These sober reminders on the complexity of climate-migration links are worth keeping in mind when evaluating the plethora of new reports on the topic."
Source: New Security Beat
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Has Anyone Read the draft Copenhagen Agreement?
ReplyDeletehttp://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2009/awglca7/eng/inf02.pdf
The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.
The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries to pay an "adaptation debt" to developing countries to supposedly support climate change mitigation.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703574604574500580285679074.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/48714
I am doing a study of the effects of post-disaster resettlement on community social support networks in the context of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Take a peek if you are interested!
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