According to World Bank’s Groundswell report, climate change could lead to 216 million internal displacements by 2050. Already, the number of disaster-related internal displacements exceeds the number of conflict-related displacements. Specific movements are difficult to attribute to environmental change, especially to slow onset events such as desertification and rising sea level. The UN climate change conference of 2023 took baby steps to address climate injustice. Sampurna Sarkar is an early-career climate change adaptation practitioner-scholar.

Source: The Telegraph February 22, 2024 19:48 UTC