Africa: A Fight for Our Future - Youth, Climate Justice and Environmentally Displaced People

The New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants states that "migration should be a choice, not a necessity". However, there are countless groups of forced and involuntary migrants, including refugees, stateless persons, people who are trafficked and those internally displaced by disasters and conflict.

During recent years, a new category of involuntary migrants is emerging: 'environmentally displaced people'. These are people forced to migrate because natural disasters or degradation of environmental resources resulting from climate change have rendered their livelihoods unsustainable. According to a study co-funded by the University of Oxford, UNHCR, and the Governments of Norway and Switzerland, between 50 and 200 million people are expected to be displaced due to climate change by 2050.

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