UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ant�nio Guterres introduced the report, "Climate Change, Vulnerability and Human Mobility," while attending the Rio+20 summit on sustainable development. It was published by UNHCR and the United Nations University with support of the London School of Economics and Bonn University.
"This report confirms what we have been hearing for years from refugees. They did everything they could to stay at home, but when their last crops failed, their livestock died, they had no option but to move; movement which often led them into greater harm's way," said Guterres.
The study, based on discussions with around 150 refugees and internally displaced people in Ethiopia and Uganda in 2011, asked questions aimed at understanding to what extent climate change had contributed to their flight from their homes, and eventually their countries. Most of those interviewed were farmers and pastoralists from Eritrea, Somalia and eastern Sudan.
"The report highlights how important it is to understand the real experiences of vulnerable people with environmental stressors today" said Konrad Osterwalder, Rector of the United Nations University, which helped to design the research methods and implemented the fieldwork together with Bonn University, London School of Economics and UNHCR....
Houston, TX, September 2, 2005 -- Stockpiles of food, water and ice were brought into the Astrodome for the people who have arrived from New Orleans in a massive bus caravan. Water and ice were especially needed. The Astrodome was opened as a shelter for possibly 20,000 storm victims until a more permanent housing arrangement can be found or constructed. Photo by Ed Edahl/FEMA
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