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This report focuses on one particular result from climate change – the negative impact on food security and how this factor contributed to the desperation and anger that manifested itself against the Al-Assad regime in Syria.

The Syrian war has resulted in more than 470,000 deaths. 6.6 million people have been internally displaced and nearly five million people are residing in camps in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon as well as an estimated 1.2 million seeking refuge in Europe.

Whilst the war was not solely a result of climate change, the intertwining effects of drought, rural to urban migration, and the increasing unrest due to a lack of government measures to avoid water scarcity, unemployment and growing inequality, are clear.

A new international agreement on migration – the UN Global Compact on Migration – is set to be adopted in autumn 2018. It covers a range of issues, from the drivers of migration to access to social services, and offers a chance to improve the governance of migration. However, as a soft-power tool that does not place any binding obligations on states, it cannot replace the unambiguous, legally binding agreement to protect climate refugees that EJF is calling for.

Die Klimakrise ist sowohl eine Umwelt- als auch eine Menschenrechtsproblematik. Dieser Bericht beleuchtet die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die Nahrungsmittelproduktion und Ernährungssicherheit und zeigt die unterschiedlichen Arten auf, durch die Menschen aus ihrer Heimat oder ihrer Region durch allmählich einsetzende Wetterereignisse vertrieben werden.