The World Development Report on Migrants, Refugees, and Societies states, migration will become a necessity to cope with global economic imbalances, diverging demographic trends, and climate change.
Affected by |
Countries |
Sea level rise and coastal floods |
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka |
Glacial melt and temperature rise |
Bhutan, Afghanistan and Nepal |
Threat of submersion |
small island nations like Maldives |
In 2020, cyclone Amphan alone displaced five million people across South Asia. In 2015, Nepal’s Gorkha earthquake displaced 2.6 million people, and left over 6 lakh homeless. Over 7.9 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan, in 2022. |
South Asia would have an estimated 50 million climate refugees by 2050.
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The Hindu -South Asia’s climate migration is a ticking bomb