Who is responsible? is a new series that takes an in-depth exploration of climate justice by posing questions around climate impacts, responsibility and accountability. Climate impacts are affecting the human rights of communities in the global south making a key political issue.
This episode explores the issue of Climate Refugees. Climate impacts disproportionately affect the lives and human rights of the most vulnerable populations. Climate Change forces people to leave their communities to find a safe place to live and enjoy their rights. Climate refugee is a term that academics and UN organizations resist due to its political and paradigm-changing implications. What is behind this opposition and what political discussions shape who gets protection.
We talked with Amali Towers Executive Director and Founder of the NGO Climate Refugees to learn more about it. Climate Refugees is an independent, non-profit project created to bring attention and action to help people displaced across borders as a result of climate change.
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