In this report, we reflect on the discussion from our event “Climate Change & Forced Displacement” where experts from Brazil, Canada and the United States engaged in a north-south dialogue to address managed retreat, the role of local community adaptation in the absence of national action, the applicability of the 1951 Convention and refugee designation for climate causes, and the multifaceted characteristics of climate displacement. Read.

June 20 was World Refugee Day with 2021 marking a distressing milestone: the number of people around the world who have been forcibly displaced due to violence, persecution and human rights violations has risen to 82.4 million. The Council’s 2018 report A Call to Action proposed several concrete solutions to address the rising number of forcibly displaced persons, yet the situation has since gone from critical to catastrophic. The solutions proposed are needed now more than ever. Learn more about the WRMC’s efforts to reset the global response to forced displacement. Read.

Gary Kleiman of Washington-DC based Kleiman International Consultants, Inc. has made the case as to why the WRMC is uniquely positioned to convene a public-private sector group, including financial, development and humanitarian representatives, to prepare in detail inaugural transactions of hundreds of millions to billions of dollars to meet the social and infrastructure needs of the world’s 80 million displaced people. Read.