Climate change and migration: predictions, politics and policy (Climate Outreach)

Climate change and migration: predictions, politics and policy (Climate Outreach)

How will climate change reshape migration? And what are governments planning to do about it? This online course examines these questions in depth. Over the space of 10 months, this course examines the major issues around climate-linked migration and displacement. Climate change is set to play a key role in patterns of human settlement and migration in the future. Altered patterns of drought, storms and sea level rise are already creating new patterns of migration.

This course is intended for anyone wishing to tackle a major global issue.
The course is completely online. You can join the sessions via live stream from your computer. The sessions will provide roughly an hour of lecture input, followed by a chance for discussion. If you can’t join the sessions live, you can watch them online anytime, at your own pace. Each session also comes with a collection of recommended reading and watching, so you can investigate the themes and ideas further if you wish.

Course themes

Sessions 1 -3 – getting started
These sessions provide grounding in the links between climate change and migration, as well as research methods used to explore the role of climate change in shaping the human movement.

Sessions 4 -6 – politics
These sessions look at the key political ideas that are shaping how climate migration unfolds, who is impacted and how governments are responding.

Sessions 7 and 8 – policy
These sessions look at the key policy areas where decisions about climate-linked migration are being taken. These sessions look at the major international fora where states negotiate on this issue.

Sessions 9 and 10 – complex crises
These sessions use the tools and learning from the entire course to examine several complex humanitarian crises in which climate change has played a role. They will look at how climate change has created and influenced human movement in and around the impacted areas.

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