Climate Change, Migration Policy Approaches to Climate Migration: Lessons From Latin America and the Caribbean

This article is a thought piece based on discussions at our 2020 Global Shifts Colloquium: Seeking Refuge in the Climate Emergency. 

As climate change has gained more attention and governments have developed policies to reduce carbon emissions and manage increasing environmental risks, climate migration—the movement of people primarily due to changes in the environment that result from climate change—has become a key issue for research and policy. Understanding climate migration presents complex challenges. While the displacement of people affected by the types of disasters that have been accelerated by climate change is readily observable, understanding long-term trends is more complicated and will require creative analysis. Nonetheless, countries are beginning to press ahead with policies to mitigate the factors that contribute to climate migration and address the displacement of people when it occurs.

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