EAC Climate Change Master-Plan

EAC Climate Change Master-Plan

Climate Change
Policy
2015
Year of publication
2015
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Flood, Landslide
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Sudden-onset
Type of provision related to human mobility in disaster and climate change contexts
DIRECT GENERAL - Migration as a consequence of climate change and disasters.
Regional instruments Member countries
Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, United Republic of
Sub-region
Eastern Africa
Region
Eastern Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Author/issuing body
East African Community (EAC)
Relevant GCM objective
    GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse drivers
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
Not Available

climate change induced disasters including floods, landslide and famine’ ‘may induce (...) mass migration of families and animals.

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*References to Kosovo shall be understood to be in the context of United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999).