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In Search of Shelter. Mapping the effects of climate change on human migration and displacement (2009)


home_shelter_smallThis report explores how environmental shocks and stresses, especially those related to climate change, can push people to leave their homes in search of "greener pastures" ... or just to survive. Produced in collaboration with United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) and Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN). 

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Humanitarian implications of climate change. Mapping emerging trends and risk hotspots (2008)


doc_hotspots_smallThis report maps where extreme climatic phenomena may strike and correlates it with data on where people are most impoverished and vulnerable. In this way it maps the hotspots where hazards associated with climate change will wreak most damage and cost most lives. Produced in collaboration with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and Maplecroft.


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In 2009, CARE members were engaged in global Networks & Alliances, and helped in the research for the following reports:


Other Worlds are Possible (2009)


otherworldsBetter ways to organise our economies, communities and livelihoods already surround us; there are more choices about our economic future than many policy makers claim. Thie report is the sixth report from the Working Group on Climate Change and Development.




Worldwide Views on Global Warming (2009)


wwviewsIn this report, the results of WWViews are summarized in 9 policy recommendations. Along with the expert analysis behind these statements, the report includes an in-depth explanation of how the WWViews project was carried out.