One person is displaced every second by our warming planet. Where will they go?

Rohingya Muslim women are camping with no or little food and no sanitation, spending days and nights in open fields with just plastic sheets as shelters

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As crucial climate talks fast approach in Glasgow, it's estimated one person is displaced from their home every second by the impacts of global warming. Rising sea levels, fires, floods and other disasters will increasingly leave people with no choice but to move. But where will they go? Under what laws and policies? And with what protections?


As leaders debate the key target to reduce greenhouse emissions to net zero by 2050, there's another daunting milestone that date represents. According to the World Bank, by then climate change would have forced no fewer than 216 million people across six world regions to relocate. According to experts, disaster-related movement now makes up 75 per cent of internal displacement compared to the 25 per cent caused by war or conflict.


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