"The main issue is always poverty, lack of opportunity, and climate change is basically exacerbating this problem,"
"'This is not abstract,' Nikki Reisch, director of climate and energy at the Center for International Environmental Law, says of climate-induced migration. 'This is about real lives. It's about survival. It's about human rights and dignity, and, ultimately, about justice.'"
"'The big polluters need to phase out and pay up,' says Reisch."
Approximately 250 million people have been forced from their homes over the past decade by droughts, storms, floods and extreme heat, concentrated mainly in the Global South. Poverty and lack of opportunity remain primary drivers that climate change exacerbates, compounding displacement alongside conflict and extreme poverty. Wealthier Global North nations, despite higher historical emissions, are intensifying crackdowns on migrants and climate refugees fleeing compounding humanitarian crises. COP30 in Belém prioritizes financing for transition and adaptation, phasing out fossil fuels, and preserving forests, with calls for major polluters to both phase out and provide funding for loss, damage, and equitable adaptation.
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