‘Migration is a positive and effective adaptation strategy in case of situations forcing people to leave their homelands’. The lunch debate COMECE organised on 21 October 2015 aimed at raising awareness of the potential challenges that climate induced mobility of persons represents for the international community and the appropriate answers to this phenomenon, including policy-related ones.
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Prof. Kjeld Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen) described in his intervention the scientific models that suggest the dimension of future changes in temperature and rainfall in the world, emphasizing that usually climate change is not the only motivation to migrate, but there are mixed causes and factors. He addressed the current overemphasis in the security dimension of the problem of climate change.
Ms Jo de Backer, from the Information (IOM-Brussels) spoke of the work and approach of IOM. She highlighted that in the migration debate, human beings are at the centre, and that migration should be seen mostly as a positive and effective adaptation strategy in case of situations forcing people to leave their homelands.
The exhibition “Moving Stories”, displayed in the conference room, presenting individual testimonies on the impact of climate change worldwide assisted the event.
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