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AFTER RAISING HOPE, BIDEN STILL LACKS CLIMATE MIGRATION PLAN

By JULIE WATSONOctober 19, 2022

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FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference at the COP26 U.N.
Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. Shortly after Biden took
office, he issued what was widely hailed as a landmark executive order calling
for the U.S. government to address the impact of climate change on migration.
Since then, however, the Biden administration has done little more than study
the idea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Shortly after taking office, President Joe Biden issued what
was widely hailed as a landmark executive order calling for the U.S. government
to study and plan for the impact of climate change on migration. And less than a
year later, his administration released the first U.S. government assessment of
the vast rippling effects of a warming Earth on international security and
displacement of people.

Advocates praised both moves as bold steps toward the world finally recognizing
the need to offer refuge to people fleeing not just wars and persecution but
also climate calamities such as drought and rising seas.

Since then, however, the Biden administration has done little more than study
the idea, advocates say.

The government has been slow to implement recommendations made a year ago by its
own agencies, including the National Security Council, on how to address climate
migration.

Key to progress on the issue was creation of an interagency working group to
coordinate government response to both domestic and international climate
migration.

But the group, which was supposed to oversee policies, strategies and budgets to
help climate-displaced people, still has not been established, according to a
person with knowledge of the administration’s efforts who was not authorized to
speak publicly. The person said the group is expected to hold its first meeting
later this fall. The administration declined to identify which agencies will
participate in the working group.

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Meanwhile, Biden’s report to Congress about his plans for refugee admissions to
the U.S. in the 2023 budget year made scant mention of climate change.

Advocates once energized by the administration’s promises to embrace
climate-displaced people say they have grown disillusioned.

“It’s been really disappointing,” said Ama Francis, climate migration expert at
the International Refugee Assistance Project, a New York-based advocacy group.
“We want to see real action. There are needs right now. But all we see is the
administration move more slowly and staying in an exploratory phase, rather than
doing something.”

That’s despite the government’s reports by the departments of Defense and
Homeland Security, National Security Council and Director of National
Intelligence that highlighted “the urgency of expanding current protections and
creating new legal pathways to safety for climate-displaced people,” Francis
pointed out.

Each year, natural disasters force an average of 21.5 million people from their
homes around the world, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees. And scientists predict migration will grow as the planet gets hotter.
Over the next 30 years, 143 million people are likely to be uprooted by rising
seas, drought, searing temperatures and other climate catastrophes, the U.N.’s
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported this year.

National security officials also recommended increasing U.S. aid to countries
regularly pummeled by extreme weather and strengthening support for U.S. climate
scientists and others to track these events.

To that end, the government recently released plans to work with Congress to
provide billions of dollars annually to help countries adapt and manage impacts
of climate change, especially to those vulnerable to the worst effects.

At the U.S.-Pacific Islands Summit, Biden announced $22 million in funding for
climate forecasting and research, and setting up early warning systems in places
like Africa, where 60% of nations lack such systems. The administration said it
plans to announce more such funding to close that gap at the global COP27
climate summit in Egypt in November.

Environmental disasters now displace more people than conflict within their own
countries, though no nation in the world offers asylum to climate migrants.

The White House’s 37-page Report on the Impact of Climate Change on Migration
was the first time the U.S. government outlined the inextricable links between
climate change and migration.

Released in October 2021 as Biden headed to the U.N. climate conference in
Glasgow, Scotland, the report recommended steps, such as monitoring the flows of
people forced to leave their homes because of natural disasters and working with
Congress on a groundbreaking plan that would add droughts, floods, wildfires and
other climate-related reasons in considering refugee status.

The report came a year after the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees published
legal guidance that opened the door for offering protection to people displaced
by the effects of global warming.

The guidance said climate change should be taken into consideration in certain
scenarios when it intersects with violence, though the document stopped short of
redefining the 1951 Refugee Convention, which provides legal protection only to
people fleeing persecution due to their race, religion, nationality, political
opinion or social group.

The U.N. refugee agency acknowledged that temporary protection may be
insufficient if a country becomes uninhabitable because of drought or rising
seas, and suggested certain climate-displaced people could be eligible for
resettlement.

Last month, more than a dozen humanitarian organizations sent a letter to the
White House urging the government to give priority to refugee populations
currently affected by climate change. The people include: South Sudanese and
Ethiopians in Sudan where recurring drought and floods exacerbated by climate
change threaten refugee camps. And Rohingya in Bangladesh where refugee camps
are also at risk due to flooding.

But the Biden administration has not responded to the request, the organizations
said.

“It was a positive step that the administration recognized that they should work
on this issue, which is a first, so now they should make good on ... that
promise,” said Kayly Ober of Refugees International.

Migration is part of humanity’s adaptation to climate change and will become one
of many tools for survival, so governments need now to plan accordingly,
advocates say.

Humanitarian organizations provided the administration with reports on how to
train immigration officers to do a better job at taking climate change into
account when interviewing people for asylum or refugee status. They also offered
analysis of possible legal pathways, such as expanding temporary protective
status and humanitarian parole, which have allowed people fleeing natural
disasters and conflicts in a limited list of countries to live and work in the
United States for a few years.

The U.S. should establish a resettlement category for migrants who do not meet
the refugee definition but who are unable to return safely to their homelands
due to environmental risks, according to experts.

Worsening weather conditions are exacerbating poverty, crime and political
instability, fueling tensions over dwindling resources from Africa to Latin
America. But often climate change is overlooked as a contributing factor for
people fleeing their homelands. According to the U.N. refugee agency, 90% of
refugees under its mandate are from countries “on the front lines of the climate
emergency.”

But so far there has been slow progress in the U.S. adopting policies
recognizing them.

“Where we have some movement unfortunately is only in the uptick of people
forcibly displaced in the world,” said Amali Tower, founder of the advocacy
group Climate Refugees.

____

Associated Press climate and environmental coverage receives support from
several private foundations. See more about AP’s climate initiative here. The AP
is solely responsible for all content.

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