More people displaced due to natural disasters and climate change than conflicts and war in 2018 — says CSE and Down To Earth’s State of India’s Environment 2020 report
Back in 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had noted that the single greatest impact of climate change will be on human migration. In 2018, of the new 28 million internally displaced people in 148 countries, 61 per cent were due to disasters. In comparison, 39 per cent were displaced due to conflict and violence. Experts believe that by 2050, more than 200 million people will be forced to flee their homes.
These statistics feature in a series of articles on migration in the latest State of India’s Environment Annual, which was released here yesterday at the 2020 Anil Agarwal Dialogue and Annual Media Conclave by Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot.
With increasing intensity and frequency, natural disasters now affect more than half of India’s population, both...