The 2022 report on human migration indicated climate change as one of the main reasons. The World Migration Report 2022 released today, revealed a staggering figure and the even more worrying causes behind it. The report depicted that more people are being dislocated by disasters, an immediate outcome of climate change, rather than socio-political conflicts.
Every alternate year the International Organization for Migration (IOM) of the UN releases a report on the status of migration among people across the world. In the last report of 2020, 30.7 million new displacements were catalyzed by natural disasters in 145 territories and countries. What is more concerning is that there is an increase in internal migration due to disasters despite lockdowns and containments world over, with figures rising from 31.5 million in 2019 to 40.5 million in 2020 as reported by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Storms accounted for 14.6 million displacements and floods for 14.1 million. Of the disasters causing more migrations, are the droughts which displaced in 2020 alone and extreme temperatures and heat waves causing around 46,000 people to relocate. The World Bank had also earlier estimated that 143 million would internally migrate in their countries by 2050 owing to climate change-related phenomena in South Asia, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa. The Secretary-General of IOM quoted that such migration has never been seen before and the rate at which it is going on is even more alarming.
Iqra is a writer with an aptitude for creating opinionated pieces on politics, climate, and society. She has a background in Geography and has previously worked as an SEO content writer and manager for an online media company.
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