Resilience on the move: Migration's powerful role in creating climate resilience

Across the world, people are already using migration as a way of coping with climate change. Climate change is intensifying disasters like droughts, and individuals are relocating to protect their lives and livelihoods. Governments negotiating at COP must acknowledge this new reality. By making migration safer, more people are enabled to use it as a means of building their climate resilience. People on the move always face risks. Creating new, safe, and legal migration options for climate-vulnerable communities should be viewed as a key adaptation strategy. Governments must begin to cooperate and reach agreements to protect the rights of people on the move.

The highlights of the report, are:

• Creating safe, meaningful work opportunities for people on the move;
• Creating new legal migration options for climate-vulnerable communities;
• Finance and responsibility.