Climate-induced Displacement and Migration: A Proposed Framework for the G20 for Collaboration1

Sampurna Sarkar and Anamitra Anurag Danda

Journal of Infrastructure Development, 2023, vol. 15, issue 1, 73-80

Abstract: The impacts of climate change could displace up to 250 million people by 2050, exacerbating poverty and inequality, and derailing the achievement of SDGs by several decades. The impacts of climate change on countries of the Global South are disproportionate. In these countries, large-scale sudden displacement could lead to violations of people’s rights. These negative consequences could be avoided through policy interventions aimed at empowering and enhancing human capital. In countries of the Global North, population shrinkage and eventual economic dysfunction are inevitable, but these could be addressed through immigration. Collaboration between countries likely to witness climate change-induced displacement at scale, and those that require immigrants to sustain and grow their populations and economies, could result in positive outcomes for both sets of countries. This Policy Brief makes the above argument through illustrative cases.

Keywords: Climate change; displacement; population shrinkage; managed retreat; G20 collaboration; sustainable development goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09749306241247109 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jouinf:v:15:y:2023:i:1:p:73-80

DOI: 10.1177/09749306241247109

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Infrastructure Development from India Development Foundation
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().