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Enabling grassroots accessibility to Loss and Damage funding in Bangladesh

30/04/2026
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Bangladesh’s Loss and Damage framework aims to establish an enabling policy environment and the necessary institutional arrangements for mobilising funds to support people displaced by climate change impacts. Ensuring grassroots access to these funds is key to enabling tangible local actions that strengthen livelihoods and resilience.

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Between constraint and resilience: displaced people facing the climate crisis in the Sahel

30/04/2026
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Humanitarian discourse often celebrates ‘resilience’, yet for many displaced people resilience is less a free choice and more a necessity imposed by crisis. That reality calls for policies that turn survival strategies into supported pathways for adaptation.

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Navigating livelihood transitions and labour rights among India’s marine fisherfolk

09/04/2026
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Climate change is threatening livelihoods and traditional ways of life for India’s marine fisherfolk, but community organisation is spearheading resistance and adaptation. Policy frameworks must shift towards structural reform to translate these successes into broader resilience.

From the editors

06/11/2025
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When climate change blows off your roof and nobody comes: a refugee’s reality check

06/11/2025
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One man’s story encapsulates the contradictions at the heart of responses to climate-induced migration, which demand resilience but deny refugees the means to shape their own futures. A more imaginative, people-centred approach is urgently needed.

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Unstable ground: navigating climate relocation through Bosnia’s invisible fault lines

06/11/2025
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Europe’s climate crisis is fuelling extreme weather, displacement and fragility. Technocratic relocation fails to acknowledge human attachment, cultural memory or the role of inequality. True adaptation demands justice, which means recognising the invisible fault lines that shape vulnerability, resilience and belonging.Europe’s climate crisis is fuelling extreme weather, displacement and fragility. Technocratic relocation fails to acknowledge human attachment, cultural memory or the role of inequality. True adaptation demands justice, which means recognising the invisible fault lines that shape vulnerability, resilience and belonging.

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Speaking up: using participatory communication to support inclusive relocation

06/11/2025
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Incorporating locally appropriate means of communication and deliberation into decision-making around planned relocation gives agency to affected communities, as case studies from Vietnam and Peru demonstrate.

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Supporting decent work for those forced to move and those who want to stay

06/11/2025
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Ensuring access to decent work in the context of climate displacement is an essential element of supporting a ‘just transition’. Emerging practices from across the world suggest how climate action and labour strategies can reinforce each other.

The promise of satellite imagery in addressing climate displacement

06/11/2025
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Satellite imagery can offer a powerful new perspective on the drivers of climate displacement, as case studies in Ghana and Libya demonstrate, but ethical concerns and data limitations call for caution, especially amid advances in digital technology.

Refugee volunteers planting a tree at St Andrew’s Refugee Services, Cairo, on Earth Day 2022.

What is choice without knowledge? Climate literacy for displaced communities

06/11/2025
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Climate literacy enables greater agency, decision-making, and meaningful refugee participation. One refugee-led organisation in Egypt is piloting workshops and supporting community-led initiatives to help translate knowledge into power.