Migration and climate change: A new (under) class of travellers

Economist by Addis Ababa, Lokichoggio | Jun. 29, 2009 (Special Report)
Victims of a warming world may be caught in a bureaucratic limbo unless things are done to ease—and better still, pre-empt—their travails

The International Organisation for Migration thinks there will be 200m climate-change migrants by 2050, when the world’s population is set to peak at 9 billion. Others put the total at 700m. Full Story »

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3.7
 by Dwight Rousu - Jun. 29, 2009

The story scopes out concerns about migrations that will be forced by climate change. It helps make real the costs of failing to constrict carbon emissions.

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