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Dec 1, 2023 · Research estimates more than 216 million people could migrate within their countries as a result of climate change by 2050.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that an average of 21.5 million people were forcibly displaced each year by sudden onset weather-related hazards between 2008...
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Jun 14, 2024 · Scientists predict ongoing global climate change to trigger adverse events affecting about 143 million people in the Global South by 2050, leading to various forms of migration and mobility.
Jan 7, 2022 · 2021 closed with yet another year of record forcibly displaced persons and the climate crisis played a major role driving over 84 million people out of their homes. We already know that in 2020, three times as many people - 30.7 million - were internally displaced by the climate crisis than by conflict or violence.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre produces annual estimates of the number of people displaced by disasters. These estimates are broken down by disaster-type and country. For example we know that last year 24 million people were displayed by weather related disasters like floods and hurricanes.
Jul 23, 2020 · If governments take modest action to reduce climate emissions, about 680,000 climate migrants might move from Central America and Mexico to the United States between now and 2050.
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Nov 16, 2023 · Using estimates of all displacement, rather than that linked to climate change and natural disasters. A thoroughly debunked but nonetheless widely circulated estimate predicts there will be as many as 1.2 billion climate migrants by 2050, a number derived simply by reviewing annual displacement data and assuming all people will remain displaced ...
