We need a fresh approach to climate change migration

The author proposes a seven-step framework to address climate change migration, emphasizing the need to move away from top-down planning and sensationalized predictions toward community-led adaptation and evidence-based policy.

• Current policy and planning for climate change migration are typically top-down and fail to incorporate the lived experience and knowledge of the communities most at risk.
• The author proposes a seven-step approach to climate migration based on human security, which includes decarbonizing the global economy, avoiding assumptions about migrants' desires, adopting a 'mobilities perspective' to facilitate safe movement, and prioritizing disaster prevention and in situ adaptation.
• Planning for displacement should start at the community scale and build upwards to avoid the emotive politics that often hinder national and international policy frameworks.
• The document criticizes the use of non-peer-reviewed, sensationalized predictions regarding the number of displaced people, noting that the IPCC states there are no robust global estimates for future displacement.

APA

Farbotko, C. (2019). We need a fresh approach to climate change migration. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/we-need-a-fresh-approach-to-climate-change-migration/

Chicago

Farbotko, Carol. We need a fresh approach to climate change migration. World Economic Forum, 2019. https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/we-need-a-fresh-approach-to-climate-change-migration/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Farbotko |first1=Carol |title=We need a fresh approach to climate change migration |publisher=World Economic Forum |date=20 February 2019 |url=https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/we-need-a-fresh-approach-to-climate-change-migration/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{farbotko2019need, author = {Farbotko, Carol}, title = {{We need a fresh approach to climate change migration}}, publisher = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2019}, month = feb, url = {https://www.weforum.org/stories/climate-action/we-need-a-fresh-approach-to-climate-change-migration/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }