A Patient Envoy 1 February 2014 – Marianne Alfsen/Felix Media Walter Kaelin believes in power of people who set down and and talk it out when faced with challenges. Now he is talking his way through the world on behalf of people displaced…
How to Make Climate Migration a Solution, Not a Problem 16 January 2014 – Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation The phrase "climate migrants" tends to conjure up images of people forced from their homes by storms, floods, drought or sea-level rise. Often…
Will Fleeing Home be the Last Resort as the Climate Changes? 14 January 2014 – IRIN Salustiano Albert has lived in Palau, an archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean comprising over 500 islands, for more than three decades. Part of his family…
Canciller Inaugura Consulta Regional Sobre Desplazamiento Transfronterizo como Resultado de Desastres Naturales 12 December 2013 – Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores El Canciller, Enrique Castillo, inauguró la consulta regional sobre el desplazamiento transfronterizo como resultado de desastres naturales, auspiciada por la Iniciativa Nansen…
Climate Change Refugees? Think Again 9 December 2013, Refugees International – Alice Thomas Two weeks ago, the High Court of New Zealand rejected a Kiribati man’s request for asylum as a “climate change refugee.” Ione Teitiota argued that he should be entitled…
Nansen Initiative Pacific Regional Consultation Chair’s Summary Over the past two days, we have had some very rich discussions around the issues related to human mobility, disasters and both the immediate and slow on-set impacts of climate change. Our discussions…
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 21 May 2013 – Nansen Initiative Pacific Regional Consultation Human Mobility, Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific Opening Address by Cook Islands Prime Minister Hon. Henry Puna Your Excellencies (Mr. President, Madam Vice-President), Ministers, Representatives of Governments…
Rarotonga, Cook Islands, 21 May 2013 – Nansen Initiative Pacific Regional Consultation Human Mobility, Natural Disasters and Climate Change in the Pacific Key note address by Hon. Vice President Teima Onorio Jodtjif Nansen said and I quote “Nothing great and good can…
