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Feb 21, 2012Postcards from the frontlines - How to take partRead
Postcards from the frontlines - How to take part
Help protect climate refugees. Send your postcard today.
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News & Media
Feb 20, 2012Vivienne Westwood's TShirt for EJF at London Fashion WeekRead
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Films
Feb 06, 2012Jade Parfitt supports the Climate Week T-shirt for EJFRead
Jade Parfitt supports the Climate Week T-shirt for EJF
Jade Parfitt's message at the photoshoot for the Climate Week T-shirt in support of EJF's No Place Like Home campaign.
People are being forced from their homes and land by deteriorating environmental conditions linked to climate change. Conditions like creeping desertification, flooding, rising sea levels and more intense extreme weather events. Some will be forced to leave temporarily, others permanently.
EJF believes that there needs to be a new legally-binding instrument identifying and protecting climate refugees. -
Films
Feb 05, 2012KT Tunstall supports the Climate Week T-shirt for EJFRead
KT Tunstall supports the Climate Week T-shirt for EJF
KT Tunstall's message at the photoshoot for the Climate Week T-shirt in support of EJF's No Place Like Home campaign.
People are being forced from their homes and land by deteriorating environmental conditions linked to climate change. Conditions like creeping desertification, flooding, rising sea levels and more intense extreme weather events. Some will be forced to leave temporarily, others permanently.
EJF believes that there needs to be a new legally-binding instrument identifying and protecting climate refugees.
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Films
Feb 04, 2012Wonderland support the Climate Week T-shirt in support for EJFRead
Wonderland support the Climate Week T-shirt in support for EJF
Girlband Wonderland's message at the photoshoot for the Climate Week T-shirt in support of EJF's No Place Like Home campaign.
People are being forced from their homes and land by deteriorating environmental conditions linked to climate change. Conditions like creeping desertification, flooding, rising sea levels and more intense extreme weather events. Some will be forced to leave temporarily, others permanently.
EJF believes that there needs to be a new legally-binding instrument identifying and protecting climate refugees. -
Films
Feb 02, 2012A legal point of view: Polly Higgins, author and environmental lawyerRead
A legal point of view: Polly Higgins, author and environmental lawyer
Part of a series of interviews on migration and climate change curated and produced for the Hay Festival Maldives 2010.
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Films
Feb 02, 2012An advocate's concern: Dr Purna Sen, head of Human Rights Commonwealth SecretariatRead
An advocate's concern: Dr Purna Sen, head of Human Rights Commonwealth Secretariat
EJF interviews Dr Purna Sen, former Head of Human Rights Commonwealth Secretariat, on the human impacts of climate change.
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Films
Feb 02, 2012ENV - My Linh PSARead
ENV - My Linh PSA
Vietnamese pop star My Linh urges people not to consume bear parts or bile, raising awareness for the campaign to end the bear trade.
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News & Media
Dec 08, 2011UN Refugee Agency Chief opens landmark meeting with call for protection for climate refugeesRead
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News & Media
Nov 27, 2011Climate change won’t wait, and nor should weRead
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News & Media
Oct 31, 2011PechaKucha-inspired EJF event on climate refugeesRead
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News & Media
Jul 25, 2011Security Council under fire over climate changeRead
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News & Media
Jul 08, 2011Secretary of State warns that climate change will increase the threat of warRead
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News & Media
Mar 21, 2011Celebrating Climate Week, March 21st – 25th 2011Read
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News & Media
Mar 03, 2011EJF brings the issue of climate refugees to the European ParliamentRead
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News & Media
Feb 18, 2011Designer low carbon t-shirt unveiled for Climate WeekRead
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Reports
Feb 02, 2011Climate change and migration: Forced displacement, ‘climate refugees’ and the need for a new legal instrumentRead
EJF is working with our partners to secure a legally-binding, international protocol that can fill the existing gaps in legislation and ensure that the refugee support system evolves within the context of our changing world. This new legal instrument would recognize people displaced by deteriorating environmental conditions associated with climate change as a vulnerable social group, and confer them equivalent but legally distinct protection to that conferred to refugees fleeing persecution under the 1951 Geneva Convention. This briefing outlines specific recommendations for the EU, including the need to systemically link aid and development, environment and migration policies and decision-making.
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Reports
Jan 01, 2009No Place Like Home: where next for climate refugees?Read
EJF's No Place Like Home: Where next for climate refugees? report considers how the negative impacts of climate change are impacting on human rights and driving millions of people from their homes and land each year. It puts the call to governments and political leaders to secure a new agreement on climate refugees, guaranteeing them effective enjoyment of their human rights and a fair claim to our shared world.
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Reports
Jan 01, 2006Mangroves: Nature's Defence Against TsunamisRead
Mangroves represent far more than just a ‘bio-shield’. Despite being regarded for many years as ‘wastelands’, ripe for development, it is now known that mangroves provide coastal communities with many services and utilizable products, and perform vital ecosystem functions.
This report concludes that the conversion of mangrove habitat into shrimp farms, tourist resorts, agricultural and urban land over the past decades, as well as destruction of coral reefs, contributed significantly to the catastrophic loss of human lives and settlements during the 2004 tsunami. Conserving and restoring coastal mangrove areas is essential if coastal communities are to recover and be protected from future similar events.