People Beyond Borders works each day to transform narratives with displaced and marginalized communities. The conversations around displacement, migration and human mobility deeply influences  the way different groups perceive their own identity in relation to the world and environment around them. 

Climate change is the defining challenge of our time, and one of its most terrible repercussions is disaster displacement. Entire populations are already suffering the impact, but marginalized groups  in some of the most unstable and conflict-torn countries are frequently disproportionately affected. Extreme weather occurrences, such as excessively heavy rainfall, lengthy droughts, desertification, environmental degradation, or sea-level rise and cyclones, are already prompting an average of more than 20 million people to flee their homes and relocate to other parts of their country each year.

With #COP27, there is an opportunity to bring the stories of those affected by climate change to the forefront of policy making, peacebuilding & discourse setting. Tackling  the impact of the climate crisis for displaced communities is a conscious and sustainable step towards creating basic security systems . 

→Fund climate change adaptation and resilience programmes; 

→Invest in improved data & resources for preventing and improving humanitarian response;

→Support states in incorporating climate action and preparedness into national planning;

→Humanizing narratives in post-disaster support;

→Trauma-informed support specific to loss of livelihood, security and conflict environments 

These are some of the many ways  through which the climate crisis can be mitigated for displaced communities. 

The climate crisis is a human crisis! 

Act now! 

For a deeper dive, listen to Migration Policy’s Institute’s Podcast;  Changing Climate, Changing Migration and related Migration Information Source special issue that dwells into the intersection of climate change and migration to separate fact from fiction and trace out the complicated ways in which climate change affects migrants, refugees, and communities—and their adaptations and other responses: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/about/changing-climate-changing-migration