Climate resettlement: the challenges of moving entire communities

The impacts of climate change affect people all over the world – which has led governments to move entire communities impacted by rising sea levels, coastal erosion, flooding or drought – and more countries are expected to engage in climate resettlement.

However, moving people from one area to another is a complex operation in which people’s existing livelihood strategies are at risk – and sometimes, climate change is used as a pretext for carrying out long-standing goals of moving certain populations.

In this episode of DIIS Podcast, Lily Salloum Lindegaard and Mikkel Funder share their findings from fieldwork on climate resettlement schemes in Vietnam and Zambia, and point to a number of important issues that need to be addressed, both by governments and in an international framework.