This raises a broader question: Are the cities receiving climate migrants equipped to support a safer, more stable future or leaving them more exposed?
A new study published in Climate and Development on climate migrants living in informal settlements in southwestern Bangladesh examines what happens to migrants after relocation to secondary settlements.
“Rights and needs of migrants are increasingly recognized within Bangladesh’s climate change and disaster policy landscape.
For internal climate migrants, these risks are particularly concerning, especially given projections that climate change could displace one in seven people in Bangladesh by 2051.
“These actually depict both economic and non-economic losses and damages [of climate change],” she adds.