IDMC Director Alexandra Bilak will discuss what IDMC’s data and evidence show on the relationship between internal displacement and climate change. She will also present IDMC’s efforts to advance solutions on this topic in partnership with the EU’s department for International Partnerships.
- the EU's international role | international cooperation
- Monday 20 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (CET)
Practical information
- When
- Monday 20 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (CET)
- Where
- InfoPoint and Webex Meetings
- Languages
- English
- Organisers
- International Partnerships InfoPoint
Description
Last year was another record-breaking year for disaster displacements around the world, with the worst drought in 40 years leading to famine conditions and mass displacements in Somalia, wildfires across the western Unites States and southern Europe destroying homes and causing billions of dollars in damages, recurrent storms hitting vulnerable communities in the Philippines and triggering the repeated movements of people, and devastating floods in Pakistan resulting in the highest number of internal displacements globally in the last decade.
With climate change expected to increase the intensity and frequency of future disasters, policy makers, planners and practitioners are looking for proven and durable solutions to reduce, prevent and plan for climate-related displacement risk. More information is also needed on how displacement occurs in different situations, the number of people currently displaced and those facing future risk of displacement by climate-related hazards.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) has been monitoring disaster-related displacement since 2008, providing data on the scale and scope of internal displacement events around the world, identifying new incidents of displacement and monitoring how these situations evolve over time. IDMC combines this quantitative analysis of disaster displacement and displacement risk with in-depth research into the drivers, patterns, and impacts of displacement associated with slow and sudden onset hazards, to help find solutions that inform disaster displacement prevention, preparedness, and management. When possible, we also collect data on the age, gender and disabilities of internally displaced people (IDPs), to help ensure that assistance is tailored to meet the specific needs of the displaced population.
During this infopoint, IDMC will provide an overview of the methods we use to enhance understanding of displacement in a changing climate. We will also introduce you to our tools for improving planning and response, including our global disaster displacement risk model for sudden onset hazards. We are currently using the model to develop country risk profiles and to inform national disaster risk reduction planning specifically in Pacific small island developing states and in the Horn of Africa.
In addition, we will provide an overview of IDMC’s efforts to investigate, document and share promising solutions and approaches under different climate displacement scenarios to help communities, national governments, humanitarian actors and development organisations better prepare for new climatological trends and displacement risk. We will also present IDMC’s work to improve understanding on how displacement impacts people by age, gender and ability to help inform more targeted responses to displacement crises.
Speakers
- Francesco Luciani, Head of Unit, INTPA G6- Migration and Forced Displacement
- Alexandra Bilak, Director, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
Language: English
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