World migration report 2024
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people
Migration
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RegionsAdapt 2016 report: an assessment of risks and actions
The Network of Regional Governments for Sustainable Development publishes the "Regions Adapt 2016" report. The report, developed with the collaboration of the Carbon Disclosure Project, contains an assessment
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Impacts of sea level rise on economic growth in developing Asia
This paper examines the impact of global sea level rise (SLR) on the economic growth, migration, and tourism from various empirical studies and consolidates several sea level projections by 2100 under
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The Global Risks Report 2017
<p>Economic inequality, societal polarization, and intensifying environmental dangers are the top three trends that will shape global developments over the next ten years — not least of all this year says this report.</p>
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Drivers of climate change vulnerability at different scales in Karachi
Karachi, a city of around 20 million people, is facing a crisis of governance that is reflected in the poor state of service delivery, and unplanned and unsustainable urbanisation. The city’s development
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Climate and fragility risks: the global perspective
Climate change is the ultimate threat multiplier. It will aggravate fragility, contribute to social upheaval and even violent conflicts. The problem is the seven compound risks that emerge when the impacts
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Assessing the climate change, environmental degradation and migration nexus in South Asia
South Asia, comprising eight countries including Bangladesh, Maldives and Nepal, is affected by a range of natural disasters including floods, glacial lake outburst floods, storm surges, droughts, cyclones
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Climate change driving birds to migrate early, research reveals
Migrating birds are responding to the effects of climate change by arriving at their breeding grounds earlier as global temperatures rise, research has found. The University of Edinburgh study, which
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Climate change knows no borders: an analysis of climate induced migration, protection gaps and need for solidarity in South Asia
Climate change is having devastating impacts on communities’ lives, livelihoods and food security across South Asia. Its consequences are so severe that it is increasingly contributing to migration, and
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Climate change, migration and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
This brief looks at the anticipated impacts of climate induced migration on efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on climate change – SDG13. More specifically, this brief describes
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Natural disaster shocks and macroeconomic growth in Asia: evidence for typhoons and droughts
Climate-related natural disaster shocks are expected to rise as the earth is getting warmer, which will adversely affect growth prospects globally. Current robust estimates of the effects of typhoons and