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In 2023, United Nations University - EHS released a report exploring the work of CJRF partners addressing climate mobility. One key topic it explores is how migration can be a consequence of L&D.
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Among the questions explored in the report is: How can displacement drive losses and damages? The experience of communities in Cogea, Fiji, helps illustrate this.
Harare, the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe, is experiencing rapid urban sprawl and population growth, with 1.6 million people spread across the 45 municipal ward boundaries of the city. As the population surges, so to do the demands on the water infrastructure of the city.
The Black Indigenous Liberation Movement (BILM) was formed in response to a dual crisis of racial and climate injustice that disproportionately affects Black and Indigenous communities across the Americas. Extractive industries—both legal and illegal—are rapidly depleting natural resources, polluting water sources, and displacing entire communities.
Latin America’s history is a history of migration—people seeking opportunities and moving between territories and from rural areas to cities. In Mexico City, this movement often leads to fragmentation, where individuals fend for themselves, and neighbors remain strangers, despite living side by side.
Lake Chad, which straddles the borders of Niger, Chad, Nigeria, and Cameroon, was once one of the largest lakes in the world, but it has been rapidly shrinking for decades. In fact, since the 1960s, it has lost over 90% of its mass, a reality that has caused large-scale population displacement, resource scarcity, and social tensions.
For generations, Somali farmers have relied on the Gu and Deyr rains, the two annual rainy seasons, to sustain their crops and livestock. But today, due to a changing climate, unpredictable droughts and devastating floods are threatening livelihoods, forcing many to abandon their land and migrate in search of security elsewhere.
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