How to Make Climate Migration a Solution, Not a Problem

January 16, 2014
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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 they are living in shacks in city slums, earning a pittance from a roadside stall, labouring on a construction site or even selling their bodies.