Climate Migration, Climate Justice and Global NGOs in Africa

Abstract

The IPCC warned in its 1990 report that climate change and the increase in extreme weather events could trigger waves of migration from certain regions of Latin America, Africa, South and East Asia, and the Pacific Islands. Climate migration and climate refugee are emerging as new concepts in the literature and for the scientific community. The processes behind this complex phenomenon are still partly unclear, but researchers agree that climate change could lead to the largest population migration in history.