Climate Migration Research and Policy Connections: Progress Since the Foresight Report
Publisher: Frontier in Climate Magazine
Author(s): Kees van der Geest, Alex de Sherbinin, François Gemenne, and Koko Warner
Date: 2023
Topics: Climate Change, Disasters, Governance, Humanitarian Assistance, Land, Livelihoods
The Foresight report on Migration and Global Environmental Change was a first major effort to build the evidence base on the linkages between environmental changes and migration and explore the policy options to promote adaptive migration, avoid forced displacement and provide protection for displaced people and “trapped populations.” This first Research Topic of Frontiers in Climate Mobility sought to revisit the Foresight Report and its recommendations, and to identify key developments and new insights in this field of research, with a particular emphasis on policy-relevant findings and studies that examine policy approaches to addressing climate mobility. A strong example of a study doing exactly this is the article by Dyer and Neef in this Research Topic. They analyze how New Zealand's policy response to climate-induced migration and displacement in Pacific islands has evolved over the last 15 years.