CLIMB Database: Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Database

Every year, millions of people are compelled to move in the context of sudden-onset disasters, while the livelihoods of millions more are affected by slow-onset climate change and environmental degradation, with many leaving their homes, and others remaining trapped in areas at risk. Unless such population movements are orderly, safe, and regular, they can pose significant challenges to human security and people’s rights, even so in rapidly growing urban areas, and greatly undermine sustainable development, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and migration governance efforts. To highlight existing policies, instruments and practices to address challenges from a migration governance perspective, the Secretariat of the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the International Organization for Migration will lead a project under the UN Network on Migration’s workstream on climate change and migration. In collaboration with various partners and with funding from Germany, they will launch the “CLIMB Database: Human Mobility in the Context of Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Degradation Database.