{"id":25471,"date":"2006-10-20T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-05-14T18:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T18:34:11","slug":"471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>The report, from the aid agency Tearfund, raises the spectre of hundreds of millions of environmental refugees and says the main reason will be the effects of climate &#8211; from droughts and water shortages, from flooding and storm surges and from sea-level rise.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>The study, &quot;Feeling the Heat&quot;, says there are already an estimated 25 million environmental refugees, and this figure is likely to soar as rain patterns continue to change, floods and storms become more frequent and rising tides start to inundate low-lying countries such<\/span> as <span>Bangaladesh and some of the Pacific islands.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>Tearfund says that without urgent action, world governments will lose the fight to tackle the world water crisis and the growing threat of climate-change refugees in catastrophic numbers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>See <a href=\"https:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/environment\/article1904957.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full Story<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"country":[],"class_list":["post-25471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study | Dialogue Earth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dialogue Earth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-10-20T18:22:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-05-14T18:34:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"China Dialogue\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"China Dialogue\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed\"},\"headline\":\"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-10-20T18:22:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-14T18:34:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\",\"name\":\"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study | Dialogue Earth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2006-10-20T18:22:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-05-14T18:34:11+00:00\",\"description\":\"Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"description\":\"Global climate and environment news\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png\",\"width\":256,\"height\":256,\"caption\":\"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_\",\"\",\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/\"],\"description\":\"Dialogue Earth is an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics. Our unique model brings local voices to global audiences and global stories of hope, action and change to local communities. We are committed to accurately portraying China\u2019s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue. Our approach is rooted in a network of specialist country editors located across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, and delivered through reporting in eight languages, workshops, and media partnerships. We seek to bring light, rather than heat, to crucial debates, and solutions to bear on complex problems.\",\"email\":\"info@dialogue.earth\",\"telephone\":\"(+44) 7542 525 859\",\"legalName\":\"Dialogue Earth\",\"foundingDate\":\"2006-09-22\",\"numberOfEmployees\":{\"@type\":\"QuantitativeValue\",\"minValue\":\"11\",\"maxValue\":\"50\"},\"publishingPrinciples\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed\",\"name\":\"China Dialogue\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study | Dialogue Earth","description":"Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study","og_description":"Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.","og_url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/","og_site_name":"Dialogue Earth","article_published_time":"2006-10-20T18:22:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-05-14T18:34:11+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":675,"url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-logo_Thumbnail.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"China Dialogue","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/"},"author":{"name":"China Dialogue","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed"},"headline":"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study","datePublished":"2006-10-20T18:22:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-14T18:34:11+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/"},"wordCount":137,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/","name":"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study | Dialogue Earth","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-10-20T18:22:00+00:00","dateModified":"2020-05-14T18:34:11+00:00","description":"Mass movements of people across the world are likely to be one of the most dramatic effects of climate change in the coming century, a study suggests.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/uncategorized\/471-climate-change-will-cause-refugee-crisis-says-study\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Climate change will cause refugee crisis, says study"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","name":"Dialogue Earth","description":"Global climate and environment news","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#organization","name":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dialogue-Earth-Symbol-Logo_Black-Text.png","width":256,"height":256,"caption":"\u5bf9\u8bdd\u5730\u7403"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/DialogueEarth_","","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DialogueEarth.English","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/dialogue.earth\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/dialogueearth\/"],"description":"Dialogue Earth is an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics. Our unique model brings local voices to global audiences and global stories of hope, action and change to local communities. We are committed to accurately portraying China\u2019s development impacts across the Global South through geopolitically even-handed reporting and constructive dialogue. Our approach is rooted in a network of specialist country editors located across South and Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, and delivered through reporting in eight languages, workshops, and media partnerships. We seek to bring light, rather than heat, to crucial debates, and solutions to bear on complex problems.","email":"info@dialogue.earth","telephone":"(+44) 7542 525 859","legalName":"Dialogue Earth","foundingDate":"2006-09-22","numberOfEmployees":{"@type":"QuantitativeValue","minValue":"11","maxValue":"50"},"publishingPrinciples":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/about\/"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/40c24e224303700bd7dc394435b5f1ed","name":"China Dialogue","url":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/author\/chinadialogue\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dialogue.earth\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=25471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}