EAC Climate Change Strategy

EAC Climate Change Strategy

Climate Change
Policy
2011
Year of publication
2011
Specific thematic area
Climate adaptation and/or mitigation
Sector of governance
Climate change
Type of human mobility
Displacement, Migration
Characteristics of human mobility
Cross-border, Internal, Rural-urban
Type of environmental driver
Drought, Flood, Sea-level rise
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
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

‘impacts of climate-related disasters’ can result in 'internal population displacement and climate refugees, with increasing rural-urban migration.

Ps. 2, 27

Increased frequency and intensity of climate-related disasters of floods and droughts, linked to El Nino and La Nina,leading to migration, internal displacement of persons.

Ps. 2, 27

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