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Climate Migration: All Activity

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

The coordinated global response to climate change-driven displacement is relatively new and continuing to evolve. This episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration speaks with Walter Kälin, a longtime humanitarian expert and Envoy of the Chair of the Platform on Disaster Displacement, who breaks down where things stand.

People cross a bridge in the middle of a flooded city in Pakistan.

Floods and other environmental crises have caused massive displacement in Pakistan, most of this migration remaining within the country. Often, climate-displaced people go to the megacity of Karachi, where many settle permanently. This article offers perspectives from climate migrants living in several informal settlements in Karachi.

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Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Leaving a climate-vulnerable place can potentially lead to better health outcomes for individuals, but only under the right circumstances. This episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration features economist and researcher Ilse Ruyssen, who discusses the intersection of climate change, migration, and health.

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Thursday, April 23, 2026

Climate change is making home insurance more expensive and less available, which can push some people to relocate or force others to either pay more money or go without insurance and risk catastrophe. This episode of Changing Climate, Changing Migration features Talley Burley from the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Thursday, April 9, 2026

Refugees are among the people most vulnerable to climate change. This episode of the Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast focuses on these impacts, with insights from Ayoo Irene Hellen, a South Sudanese refugee in Uganda and climate advocate. 

People walk along an embankment in Bangladesh

While the term "climate refugee” is often used colloquially, people displaced by environmental factors are not actually eligible for refugee status on that basis. However, policymakers and advocates have begun to experiment with approaches to protection by other means. This article reviews the initiatives, including a novel visa in Australia and the ways that longstanding legal frameworks have been used to encompass people deeply affected by climate change.

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Monday, February 23, 2026

What happens when climate change and other factors force Indigenous people off their ancestral homelands? Environmental scientist Jessica Hernandez, a climate justice and Indigenous advocate, joins this episode of the Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast to discuss the factors compelling migration for Indigenous communities, their experiences after migration and the dearth of Indigenous voices in policy discussions.

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Tuesday, January 27, 2026

This webinar focuses on how climate change is altering human mobility and offers insights into on-the-ground experiences of climate change and migration in East Africa, South Asia, and other global contexts.

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Monday, January 26, 2026

Africa may be the most climate-vulnerable region of the world. How prepared is the continent for a future of increased displacement? This episode of the Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast speaks with Aimée-Noël Mbiyozo, a senior research consultant at the South Africa-based Institute for Security Studies.

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Tuesday, December 16, 2025

A complicated web of financial and other factors affects whether climate-vulnerable individuals want to—or even can—move. This episode of the Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast speaks with researcher Kelsea Best about climate (im)mobility and the economic and other factors that help shape futures amid changing climates.

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Monday, November 10, 2025

Children are especially vulnerable to displacement linked to climate change. This episode of the Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast features a discussion with UNICEF’s Laura Healy about this reality and the opportunities to better protect children in a warming world.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

In this episode of the Changing Climate, Changing Migration podcast, international law scholar Mark Nevitt discusses the prospect that nationals of some small Pacific Island nations become stateless if climate change makes their countries uninhabitable.

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