This is a cross-post of our piece that appeared in the World Policy Blog today

by Caitlin Werrell, Francesco Femia, and Troy Sternberg

In the 1990s, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asserted that “climate migrants” would be one of the most dire consequences of climate change. This, at times contentious argument, centers on how climate change acts as a “threat multiplier,” exacerbating existing environmental and social factors that drive migration. (more…)