Climate change, migration and justice: SEI's research and pathways for overcoming challenges | SEI

An executive summary from the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) detailing eight critical challenges in climate-related mobility and three priority research areas aimed at advancing justice and effective solutions for migration and displacement.

• The report identifies eight critical challenges in climate-related mobility: the risk of simplistic narratives linking climate to conflict leading to restrictive policies; the instrumentalization of migration for economic gain without protections; the impact of unequal power structures and colonial legacies; displacement risks from inequitable natural resource governance and land grabs; the policy gap regarding slow-onset events like sea-level rise; risks for rural-to-urban migrants in cities with inadequate infrastructure; the disruption of family dynamics and intergenerational burdens; and the oversimplification of mobility drivers in current projection models.
• SEI focuses on three interconnected priority areas to provide research insights for climate mobility: managing transboundary climate impacts through regional and global governance (including the Adaptation Without Borders initiative); conducting grounded, comparative research to amplify marginalized voices and shift power (such as through the HABITABLE project); and strengthening global cooperation to align migration with green transition opportunities and sustainable livelihoods using tools like AidAtlas and Trase.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). Climate change, migration and justice: SEI's research and pathways for overcoming challenges | SEI. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-migration-justice-pathways/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate change, migration and justice: SEI's research and pathways for overcoming challenges | SEI. 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-migration-justice-pathways/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate change, migration and justice: SEI's research and pathways for overcoming challenges | SEI}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = jan, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-migration-justice-pathways/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }