Inside HABITABLE: Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand
Climate change is already impacting human migration and displacement.
Extreme weather events displace tens of millions of people every year, while multi-year droughts and rising sea levels are making many densely populated regions increasingly hostile to human habitation.
However, the link between climate change and migration is complex.
A person’s decision to leave home depends on a range of factors, including their socioeconomic situation, their family connections and the politics of their home country.
To better understand these interlocking factors, an EU-funded research project known as HABITABLE is carrying out tens of thousands of interviews with rural communities in Sudan, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali and Thailand.
The four-year project, which ends later this year, aims to “significantly advance our understanding of the current interlinkages between climate change impacts, migration and displacement patterns, and to better anticipate their future evolution”.