the crisis is no longer theoretical…it’s already unfolding in real time.
Recent reports show that extreme weather is driving record levels of displacement globally, with 2024 ranking among the highest years ever recorded for climate-related displacement (USCRI). And this isn’t happening in isolation…it’s overlapping with conflict, poverty, and fragile systems.
Take Sudan, for example. While much of the displacement is linked to conflict, climate factors like flooding and environmental stress are making the situation worse, pushing communities into repeated cycles of displacement (iom.int).
This creates something researchers are now calling “double displacement”..where people are forced to move not once, but multiple times due to overlapping crises (ReliefWeb).
And it’s not just one region.
In places like Bangladesh, rising sea levels and environmental degradation are quietly pushing people into cities, where they face overcrowding, poverty, and instability (Refugee Law Initiative Blog).
What we’re seeing now challenges one of the biggest assumptions in policy: that displacement is a single event.
It’s not.
It’s ongoing. Repetitive. And increasingly unavoidable.
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