{"id":15249,"date":"2023-02-06T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/?p=15249"},"modified":"2023-02-13T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T22:09:49","slug":"at-davos-a-call-for-solutions-to-climate-migration-and-a-culture-of-welcome-instead-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/2023\/02\/06\/at-davos-a-call-for-solutions-to-climate-migration-and-a-culture-of-welcome-instead-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"At Davos, A Call For Solutions to Climate Migration and a Culture of Welcome Instead of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15252\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/02\/Ama-Francis_WEF-2023.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15252 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/02\/Ama-Francis_WEF-2023-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/02\/Ama-Francis_WEF-2023-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.law.columbia.edu\/climatechange\/files\/2023\/02\/Ama-Francis_WEF-2023.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ama Francis speaking in the &#8220;People on the Move: Seeing the Opportunities&#8221; session at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2023 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, 19 January. <strong>Copyright: World Economic Forum\/Jakob Polacsek<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From January 16-20, 2023, leaders in politics, business, civil society, media, and academia gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum\u2019s Annual Meeting to discuss some of the world\u2019s most pressing issues. This year, I had the honor to participate in two panel discussions on climate migration in my role as Climate Displacement Project Strategist at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeerights.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">International Refugee Assistance Project <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(IRAP) and a nonresident fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The attention on climate migration this year was rightly placed. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Forum\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/reports\/global-risks-report-2023\/digest\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Global Risks Report 2023<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> identified the \u201cfailure to mitigate climate change\u201d and \u201clarge-scale involuntary migration\u201d among the top five risks facing the world in the next decade, even as a legal infrastructure for protecting climate migrants and displaced people remains almost nonexistent. While it was important to see the issue receive the needed space on the agenda, the annual meeting also showed that some calls for action on climate change seem to be more motivated by fear of those at the receiving end of climate migration and displacement rather than a genuine desire to find solutions for those most affected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Involuntary migration due to climate change is hardly a new phenomenon. For people in regions particularly prone to environmental disasters, this risk has been acute and ongoing for many years. As Deng Dak Malual, Impact Officer at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalshapers.org\/hubs\/kakuma-hub\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kakuma Hub<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and my fellow panelist on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/open-forum\/event_sessions\/open-forum-pack-up-and-go-climate-migration\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Open Forum: Pack Up and Go \u2013 Climate Migration<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, stated: more than half of the 200,000 refugees currently living at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya fled environmental disasters. Their homes and livelihoods were destroyed by droughts and floods, making it impossible for them to stay.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the panel, I shared my own family\u2019s story and how our home in Dominica was destroyed by Hurricane Maria in 2017. This past Christmas was the first time since the hurricane that my family was able to spend in our house. I urged the attendees to \u201cthink of the comfort and security you get from having a stable house and [&#8230;] what it might be like to lose that comfort and that stability. I think losing home is one of the most devastating things that can happen to us as human beings, and I think making sure that everyone has a safe place to live is one of the most important things we can be doing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The fact that migration is a form of climate adaptation is not new, but it is also true that\u2014as climate-related disasters increase in frequency and intensity\u2014climate migration and displacement is on the rise. I was therefore grateful for the opportunity to directly address decision-makers and other stakeholders from across the world and introduce them to the legal solutions that IRAP and our partners have identified as necessary, feasible strategies to support climate migrants and displaced people (see recent reports <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeerights.org\/news-resources\/u-s-opportunities-to-address-climate-displacement-august-2-2021#:~:text=News%20%26%20Resources-,U.S.%20Opportunities%20to%20Address%20Climate%20Displacement%20(August%202%2C%202021),opportunities%20for%20developing%20new%20pathways.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeerights.org\/news-resources\/advocacy-memo-on-climate-displacement\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The key to addressing climate migration and displacement is to create a legal framework that would allow climate migrants and displaced people to quickly and easily access pathways to safety. Unfortunately, international and domestic laws are wildly out-of-sync with today\u2019s challenges and don\u2019t adequately address current needs. For example, the climate-affected refugees that Deng met at Kakuma would not be guaranteed protection under existing refugee law. But even if we created a protected category specifically for climate refugees, the sheer complexity of the varying interlocking forces of displacement at play make it hard even for climate-impacted refugees themselves to identify as such.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The best way forward is not to make existing laws ever more complex, but to come up with creative solutions that will make it easier, not harder, for people to flee from peril. We could even establish mechanisms to support movement ahead of forecasted environmental devastation. As I <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/open-forum\/event_sessions\/open-forum-pack-up-and-go-climate-migration\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said in Davos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cWe let goods cross borders\u2026but when it comes to migration, we make it incredibly difficult for humans to get from place to place, even though moving from place to place is one of the most natural things we do. Part of addressing this crisis is setting up safe ways for people to move easily <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">before<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> disaster strikes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the solutions I shared in Davos were discussed with numerous legal scholars, practitioners, and advocates at a legal strategy convening hosted by IRAP back in October (see this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeerights.org\/news-resources\/envisioning-a-way-forward-climate-displacement-legal-strategy-convening\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">summary report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). They range from free movement agreements, and humanitarian visas, to student and labor pathways. Some of these options exist currently, but are too limited and not available to all those who need them. Others have yet to be designed and implemented by governments. But they all have one thing in common: without a culture of welcome, and without the political will to resource and implement these pathways, they will not be able to meet the growing challenge of climate migration and displacement:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe problem with climate migration is not that we don\u2019t have solutions,\u201d I stated in one panel. \u201cWe have plenty of solutions. The problem is that we don\u2019t have the political and cultural will to implement those solutions. Climate change necessitates so much transformation, of us as humans, to create societies where we are welcoming people.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My call to the participants at Davos is simple: those in power have a lot of leverage to make these solutions a reality. What\u2019s more, they can help change the narrative around climate migration and displacement from a rhetoric of fear to a culture of welcome and mutual support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From January 16-20, 2023, leaders in politics, business, civil society, media, and academia gathered in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum\u2019s Annual Meeting to discuss some of the world\u2019s most pressing issues. 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