Climate Change and Migration

Climate Change and Migration in the South Pacific Region: Policy Perspectives Conference This chapter introduces key issues that were discussed at the Climate Change and Migration in the South Pacific Region: Policy Perspectives Conference. It sets the context with a series of questions and provides a framework to help guide discussion. The links between climate change, environmental degradation, and migration are manifold and not always clearly perceived. Moreover, many of the issues they raise are potentially controversial. The conference focused on the possibility of climate change–related migration in the South Pacific, one of the regions of the world predicted to be most affected by the impacts of climate change. The conference used regional examples of situations where adverse environmental events and processes had resulted in migration and displacement as a lens through which to consider the wider human mobility and