Coping with climate change in 2050

A new type of refugee emerges and tends to increase dramatically: environmental refugees. Around 2050 there will be about 200 million refugees of this type.

They did not flee because of violence, or executions, but because of the scene when the sky was shining when flooded. They are the poorest people in the world who have to leave their homeland because of global climate changes.

- By 2050, 200 million people will have to leave their homes.
- All achievements against poverty will become meaningless.
- Foresee what needs to be done to deal with global warming.
- Bangladeshi women move from raising chickens to raising ducks.
(Excerpt from CARE's report, the world's largest anti-poverty humanitarian organization presented at a meeting to prepare for the UN Summit on Climate Change will meet in December 2009)

Known through climate refugees, CARE humanitarian organizations warn that what is achieved in the fight against poverty will be meaningless if not combined with the assistance of forced migrants. because the earth scourges.

Charles Ehrhart, climate change coordinator helped the author of the CARE report present at the conference in Bonn, Germany in June 2009. Attending this conference were delegates from 184 countries to prepare a climate change agreement that will be discussed at the UN Summit this December in Copenhagen, Denmark.

This summit will offer a new resolution to deal with global warming after the Kyoto Protocol, with the goal of reaching an agreement to cut greenhouse gas emissions among industrialized countries for until 2012.

Ehrhart said at the conference that, in the next few decades, people with ecological dependency are seriously threatened. They are forced to make big exodus to survive. For example, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, sea water can rise up to 2 meters, millions of hectares of agricultural land will be submerged, leaving only half as much as before.

People living in environmental refugees
(Photo: care.org)

Climate change will make the already stressful and difficult living conditions of climate refugees, especially the poorest people, extremely bad . The first thing for them is to build a temporary shelter called climate adaptation. The moral obligation requires developing countries to set policies in time to global climate change.

Sometimes seemingly trivial changes can help people deal with potential disasters. For example, in flood-prone areas, CARE has taught people to shift from chicken farming to duck farming. In other areas, it is necessary to convert crops, from terrestrial food crops to replacement with water-resistant crops or vice versa. With these measures, even if the climate changes erratically, floods or droughts, people will not lose a whole harvest.

Refugees in new and remote areas are extremely expensive. Without money and resources, climate refugees are forced to move from rural to urban areas, concentrating more and more in cities that are already too narrow and cluttered. All these situations will put pressure on the government and may cause political instability.

Koko Warner, director of the Institute of Human Environment and Security under the United Nations University, one of the report's main authors, said that a major challenge was to accurately grasp the evolution of variable phenomena. climate change, dynamics of migration and human habitation displacement related to climate change.

Charles Ehrhart , climate change coordinator (Photo: care.org)

" New thinking and practical approach are necessary to be ready to respond and respond promptly to situations where climate-based migration poses for human security and welfare ," Warner said. to speak.

For development experts (social) like Ehrhart, climate change is the most feared enemy, there must be a coping strategy. No one wants to see the hopes of the poorest people in vain.