Environmental migrant
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Environmental migrants are people who are forced to leave their home of residency due to sudden or long-term changes to their local or regional environment. These changes compromise their well-being o
Shelters in Kenya for those displaced by the 2011 Horn of Africa drought
2014 Small Island Developing States meeting in Samoa
Climate migration
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Climate migration is a subset of climate-related mobility that refers to movement driven by the impact of sudden or gradual climate-exacerbated disasters, such as "abnormally heavy rainfalls, prolonge
Environmental migrant
…relocate. Environmental migrants originate from a variety of different locations, including Small Island Developing States. "Environmental migrant" and "climate migrant" (or "climate refugee") are used somewhat interchangeably with a range of similar terms, such as ecological refugee, environmental refugee, forced…
An activist holding a sign "Climate change = more climate refugees" at the Melbourne Global climate strike on Sep 20, 2019
Bangladesh climate refugee
The Sundarbans a few months after Cyclone Sidr in 2007
Forest wildfire in Redwood valley, California in July, 2017