See Supports International Organization for Migration

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Sheryn See, currently MPhil student with our lab, is undertaking a 4-month placement as a Climate Displacement Specialist with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Sheryn will be supporting the development of the Risk Index for Climate Displacement (RICD) - a risk index and predictive model that will improve quantification, understanding and forecasting of potential future challenges linked to climate change and migration, including climate-induced displacement. The RICD will help governments, communities, and partners to increase the resilience of populations most likely to be impacted by climate-induced displacement and work towards averting or addressing loss and damage.

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New SEI Grant to Study Climate Change Displacement

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Dr Aaron Opdyke and Dr Susan Banki were awarded funding from the Sydney Environment Institute through its Collaborative Grants to study how climate change impacts the design of settlements and institutions coping with displacement. Project Summary The speed and intensity of climate change is poised to reshape the landscape of displacement contexts in the Global South. As governments and organisations develop places of refuge, climate change is placing new pressures on both temporary and permanent settlements as well as disrupting conventions of whether proximity to home environments matter. This project will explore how the complicating factor of climate change influences the…

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