Migration as a resilience strategy to climate impacts

In celebration of World Environment Day on June 5, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Philippines launched the report "Framing the Human Narrative of Migration in the Context of Climate Change" which reviews the existing evidence on migration in the Philippines in the context of the climate emergency.

While the Philippines is one of the smallest contributors to causes of climate change, it ranks as the second most affected by climate risks impacts globally, according to the Global Climate Risk Index 2020. Aside from experiencing an average 20 typhoons a year, the country now faces more frequent and extreme weather changes, rising temperature, heavier rainfall and sea level rise.