South-Eastern Europe regional synthesis: Climate change, displacement and the right to education

This regional synthesis report aim identifies common and divergent patterns of climate displacement as well as barriers to education for climate displaced persons in several countries in South-Eastern Europe. It aims to guide policymakers by providing policy recommendations on how to ensure the protection of the right to education in the face of climate change and displacement, using a human rights-based approach.

Climate-change related displacement has particularly disastrous consequences in South-Eastern Europe due to regional specificities. Comparative country case studies were carried out in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Moldova, and Serbia, as these exemplify clear, present patterns of climate displacement, to examine the impacts of climate change on the right to education in the region.