Klimatske promene kao jedan od uzroka globalnih migracija
Climate Change and Migration Management

Author(s): Zorica Mršević, Svetlana Janković
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Energy and Environmental Studies, Sociology, Environmental and Energy policy, Migration Studies
Published by: Институт друштвених наука
Keywords: Climate Change; Migratory Movements due to Devastated (Agricultural) Economy; Glasgow; Paris; Petersburg agreements; Migration management; Gender aspects of climate change and migration
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the necessity of legal and political changes as humane responses to migration caused by climate change. There is a globally developed awareness that not only political persecution and armed conflicts are the cause of migratory movements, but also the drastically threatened existence of the population of entire regions caused by climate change. There are more migrants in the world than ever before. Many of them have fled from a severely threatened existence due to climate change and the resulting increase in droughts, typhoons, floods, heat waves, desertification, sea level rise, and other extreme weather conditions. Climate changes are intensifying and are not a problem of the future, they are already here, and they affect all parts of the world, pointing to humanity’s responsibility for their occurrence. The COVID-19 pandemic and the armed conflict in Ukraine threaten a new possible departure from the agreement on climate change issues and the abandonment of what was agreed upon with great difficulty at the Paris, Glasgow, and Petersburg summits. The aim of the paper is to warn that climate change is not only behind frequent natural disasters, and the ruined and disabled economic activities of entire regions, but also behind the armed conflicts that break out in them. The circle of generating continuous waves of refugees is thus completed along the lines of climate change, natural disasters, wars, devastated (agricultural) economic activities, and threatened basic existence of the entire affected population. That is why migration management is one of the priorities and necessary humanitarian responses to climate change. The conclusion of the paper is the necessity of adopting new rights and new practices of inclusion, freedom, and equality, which will either reform existing social and political institutions or create new ones. It is necessary to develop knowledge of new practices, and above all, more global solidarity among people.

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