Climate change to displace millions: UN report

Climate change could uproot millions in the future causing displacement and migration, warns a new UN-supported report.The report said that displacement will get worse 'unless vulnerable populations, especially the poorest, are assisted in building climate-resilient livelihoods.'
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Researchers interviewed more than 2,000 migrants in various parts of the world and mapped climate change in the Ganges, Nile and Mekong deltas, Tuvalu and the Maldives, among other areas.The publication supported by the UN University (UNU), UNHCR, the World Bank, Columbia University and the NGO CARE was launched at the UN climate change conference under way in Bonn, Germany.'In coming decades, climate change will motivate or force millions of people to leave their homes in search of viable livelihoods and safety,' it said.'Unless aggressive measures are taken to halt global warming, the consequences for human migration and displacement could reach a scope and scale that vastly exceed anything that has occurred before,' it warned.Koko Warner of UNU's Institute for Environment and Human Security told UN Radio that the majority of the migrants polled said that the environment has affected their decision on where and how to live.