Statements, Submissions, Press Releases & Calls for Actions
Yesterday, Climate Refugees joined over 200 groups in a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), urging member states to establish a new mandate for a Special Rapporteur on human rights and climate change.
Climate Refugees joined eight other organizations to send a letter on behalf of the Climate, Migration & Displacement Platform (CMDP) to President Biden, setting an agenda on how the administration should approach its report on policy options to address the impacts of climate change on forced migration and displacement…
Climate Refugees applauds President Biden’s Executive Order on US refugee resettlement that includes early actions to address climate migration. By committing to an inter-agency report on examining the impacts of climate change on migration and “options for protection and resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change,” President Biden has shown vision and bold leadership, vital to protect displaced people in a changed climate that has not kept pace with our global system.
Tomorrow is the last day of fiscal year 2020 – and the President has failed to sign a refugee admissions goal for FY 2021, grinding the resettlement program to an indefinite halt. The administration has also failed to consult with Congress, as required by US law, about the refugee admissions goal or “Presidential Determination.”
