Climate Migration Justice Pathways

The document outlines eight systemic challenges in climate-related mobility, including the risks of simplistic conflict narratives, the instrumentalization of migration as adaptation, and the impact of slow-onset events. It emphasizes the need for rights-based frameworks, inclusive governance, and the recognition of colonial legacies to address these inequities. To tackle these issues, SEI focuses on three priority areas: managing transboundary climate impacts, conducting grounded research to shift power dynamics (such as through the HABITABLE project), and strengthening global cooperation for sustainable livelihoods using tools like AidAtlas and Trase.

• The report identifies eight critical challenges in climate-related mobility: the risk of restrictive policies stemming from simplistic climate-conflict narratives; the potential for migration as adaptation to be instrumentalized for economic gain; the influence of unequal power structures and colonial legacies; inequitable natural resource governance; the policy gap regarding slow-onset events like sea-level rise; risks associated with rapid urbanization; the disruption of family dynamics across generations; and the oversimplification of mobility drivers in current modelling projections.
• SEI focuses its research and contributions on three interconnected priority areas: integrating human mobility into regional and global governance to address transboundary climate impacts (including the Adaptation Without Borders initiative), using grounded research like the HABITABLE project to amplify marginalized voices and shift power, and promoting rights-based frameworks for sustainable livelihoods in green transitions using tools such as AidAtlas and Trase.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2025). Climate Migration Justice Pathways. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-migration-justice-pathways/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Climate Migration Justice Pathways. 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/climate-migration-justice-pathways/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2025climate, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Climate Migration Justice Pathways}}, 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} }