As the climate crisis increasingly affects human mobility worldwide, the urgency for decisive action has never been more pronounced. Humanity is far from meeting the essential goals of (1) mitigating greenhouse gas emissions to lessen the severity of the climate crisis, and (2) allocating adequate resources for climate adaptation and resilience building.
As a result, each year, more and more people find themselves either trapped in increasingly dangerous circumstances or forced to leave their homes. Existing policies, institutions, and actors are ill-equipped to handle the complexities of climate change-related mobility and immobility. The imperative to recalibrate the course of action toward comprehensive environmental stewardship and dedicated solutions to address climate mobility has never been more striking—especially as the least culpable and most marginalized communities worldwide shoulder the disproportional impact of the climate crisis.
This Compendium is both a resource and a practical toolkit to advance more concerted efforts on mobility within the context of the climate crisis. Climate Migration Council members have signed the Climate Migration Declaration and committed to advance suitable action. This document helps put these commitments into practice.
