Good news for climate change migrants
After months of negotiations, the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen have good news for countries that might see hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people migrating or being displaced by climate change. For the first time the text dealing exclusively with adaptation to climate change – one of several tracks up for negotiation – has included a substantive paragraph on the need to consider planned relocation for people displaced by climate change, with “interstate cooperation” to respond to their needs.
