Climate-induced migration in the Global South: an in depth analysis

npj Climate Action, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 3(1)

Опубликована: Июнь 14, 2024

Abstract Scientists predict ongoing global climate change to trigger adverse events affecting about 143 million people in the Global South by 2050, leading various forms of migration and mobility. While existing literature extensively examines climate-induced migration, there is a lack studies considering compounding impacts multiple hazards on mobility, immobility. To address this gap, we conducted systematic review explore how stressors, specifically rising temperatures, water stress droughts, floods sea-level rise, have affected populations South, voluntary and/or forced migration. Our findings show that these stressors displaced profoundly impacted millions people, resulting both internal transboundary Climate-induced often through indirect pathways influenced intervening institutional, political, socio-economic factors programmatic policy gaps. Effectively addressing challenges related necessitates adaptation strategies adequately consider while recognizing their differential effects socio-demographic groups. We argue support from North countries, including compensation for loss damage, along with continued institutional financial international non-governmental organizations, crucial managing South. Without proper planning adequate resources, may escalate significantly impact human security. The study can inform policies assist experts identifying intervention mechanisms opportunities people-centered solutions.

Язык: Английский

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Unlocking climate finance for social protection: an analysis of the Green Climate Fund

Climate Policy, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(7), С. 878 - 893

Опубликована: Апрель 7, 2024

Social protection has gained increasing attention in global climate policy due to its potential contribute low-carbon, just and climate-resilient development. Unlocking finance for social is critical realize this potential. Multilateral funds established under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) can play a particularly important role by financing sectors where private investments are not attractive. Yet, there distinct research gap understanding limitations of UNFCCC financial mechanisms support low- middle-income countries. Taking as case study Green Fund (GCF), which largest multilateral fund mechanism UNFCCC, we seek address gap. First, introduces framework analysis ways engages with looking into comprehensive set formal services transfers provided state individuals, households, collective basis. Second, identifies continuum entry points integrating GCF's project portfolio offers holistic perspective capturing change mitigation, adaptation loss damage. We find that be instrumental design implementation GCF projects. In addition, our reveals projects create enabling conditions considerations national systems, aim at piloting or establishing long-term objectives.

Язык: Английский

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Is climate migration successful adaptation or maladaptation? A holistic assessment of outcomes in Kenya

Climate Risk Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 44, С. 100614 - 100614

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2024

Research is increasingly approaching migration as an adaptation to climate risk. Yet our understanding of the migration-adaptation nexus remains limited, most studies conceptualize either adaptive or maladaptive and focus on specific aspects vulnerability. To advance a comprehensive migration's successful effects, this study employs two-dimensional conceptualization outcomes, encompassing range vulnerability variables at migrant household levels migrants' well-being. This framework applied case drought-influenced from agro-pastoralist northern Kenya City Nairobi. Based semi-structured interviews with 40 long-term migrants, we identify quantitative qualitative migration-induced changes in examined variables. The results highlight complexity outcomes. Effects broad comprising vulnerability's exposure, sensitivity capacity components are mixed. Migrants' ability provide their families' basic needs has improved, although only half households could allocate remittances reconstruct drought-stricken livelihood sources Kenya. Moreover, profound change social-environmental settings induced by exposed migrants unfamiliar risks, such urban crime, but also new capacity, knowledge enabling development climate-insensitive livelihoods. However, partial success reducing came expense well-being, which diminished drastically. These findings stress need for fundamental migration-as-adaptation literature, including more thorough engagement temporalities scope effects adaptation, greater attention tradeoffs that integral shift analytical frameworks consider alongside ones. We argue these essential develop interventions maximize potential while minimizing its effects.

Язык: Английский

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Three challenges of social protection in sub‐Saharan Africa: informality, climate change and pandemics

International Journal of Social Welfare, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 34(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Abstract This article provides an overview of social protection challenges in sub‐Saharan Africa. It explores three main challenges: the integration informal workers, management climate change and pandemics. Despite proliferation programmes Africa, effective coverage remains low. About 76.3% population is not covered by any formal mechanisms. Following principle qualitative comparative analysis, this offers a twofold contribution. Firstly, it diversity mechanisms proposes to describe categories using concept mix: formal, semi‐formal informal. Secondly, concept, study major mix Finally, suggests ways strengthen systems that address new incorporate

Язык: Английский

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Firm-level climate risk assessment: Recent progress and future research agenda

Risk sciences., Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 100012 - 100012

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Heat index historical trends and projections due to climate change in the Mediterranean basin based on CMIP6

Atmospheric Research, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 308, С. 107512 - 107512

Опубликована: Июнь 4, 2024

Air temperature and relative humidity can be considered as two essential meteorological parameters in the determination of heat stress. The index (HI) includes both them it is appropriate for determining thermal conditions different climates. We investigated potential changes HI Mediterranean basin using simulations from Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) climate models under future scenarios (Shared Socio-economic Pathways: SSP2-4.5 SSP5-8.5) over period 2020–2099. Results reveal an important increase at end 21st century scenarios, with greater SSP5-8.5 scenario all basin. Strong significant upwards trends (around 1 °C per decade; significance level computed 5%) are expected entire area months century, greatest values during summer (close to 1.5 decade) along coastal areas Many Southern (Africa Arabian Peninsula) will strongly affected dangerously high (higher than 41 °C) by century. A northward extension these dangerous also including several southern Europe.

Язык: Английский

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Turning climate justice into practice? Channeling loss and damage funding through national social protection systems in climate‐vulnerable countries

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(2)

Опубликована: Ноя. 7, 2023

Abstract Despite the last‐minute breakthrough agreement at UN Climate Change Conference COP27 to provide funding for climate‐related loss and damage vulnerable countries, distribution mechanisms sources remain up debate. With rapid‐onset climate impacts intensifying slow‐onset further manifesting, from change is already occurring. Thus, quick, effective, transparent of upcoming funds necessary. Currently, only a tiny fraction existing finance reaches affected communities, commonly marked by high levels poverty low adaptive capacity. Similarly, donor‐based global humanitarian aid development systems are buckling under weight increasing demand. As threaten reverse gains last decades, climate‐sensitive social protection has received attention its potential address strengthen capacity resilience climate‐vulnerable populations. This review article explores prospects channeling Loss Damage through national highlights how this approach can efficiently contribute safeguarding gains, including previously overlooked aspects such as noneconomic (NELD), while also dismantling soft adaptation barriers thus fostering in long term. Although we identify barriers, gaps coverage both between within argue that some L&D aligns with core human rights justice agendas, well principle Common But Differentiated Responsibilities Respective Capabilities . categorized under: Integrated Assessment > Assessing Context Other Issues Policy Governance International Framework Vulnerability Adaptation Values‐Based Approach

Язык: Английский

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Opportunities and challenges for financing women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in the context of climate change

BMJ Global Health, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 9(4), С. e014596 - e014596

Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2024

Women, children and adolescents (WCA), especially in low-income middle-income countries (LMICs), will bear the worst consequences of climate change during their lifetimes, despite contributing least to global greenhouse gas emissions. Investing WCA can address these inequities risk, as well generating large health, economic, social environmental gains. However, women’s, children’s adolescents’ health (WCAH) is currently not mainstreamed policies financing. There also a need consider new innovative financing arrangements that support WCAH alongside goals. We provide an overview threats represents for WCA, including most vulnerable communities, where investments should focus. draw on evidence explore opportunities challenges financing, finance co-financing schemes enhance equity protect while supporting face from rising burden ill-health healthcare demand, coupled with constraints provision, impacting access essential services out-of-pocket payments healthcare. Climate impacts economic context livelihoods increasing risk displacement migration. These require additional resources service delivery, ensure continuity care households costs resilience. identify range solutions, leveraging WCAH, adaptive protection adaptations purchasing promote action needs.

Язык: Английский

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Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 102(5), С. 330 - 335

Опубликована: Май 1, 2024

Climate change poses significant risks to health and systems, with the greatest impacts in low-and middle-income countries -which are least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions.The Conference of Parties 28 at 2023 United Nations Change led agreement on need holistic equitable financing approaches address climate crisis.This paper provides an overview existing finance mechanisms -that is, multilateral funds, voluntary market-based mechanisms, taxes, microlevies adaptive social protection.We discuss these approaches' potential use promote health, generate additional sector resources enhance system sustainability resilience, also explore implementation challenges.We suggest that public practitioners, policy-makers researchers seize opportunity leverage funding better sustainable, climate-resilient systems.Emphasizing wider benefits investing economy can help prioritize within initiatives.Meaningful progress will require global community acknowledging underlying political challenges have so far limited goals.To challenges, we restructure institutions empower communities frontline crisis ensure their needs met.Efforts from national level stakeholders should focus mobilizing a wide range sources, prioritizing co-design accessibility arrangements.These invest rigorous monitoring evaluation initiatives relevant well-being outcomes addressed.

Язык: Английский

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Conceptualizing climate-induced migration in Africa

Environmental Development, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 52, С. 101049 - 101049

Опубликована: Авг. 26, 2024

Язык: Английский

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