The climate emergency is forcing people to move location, thanks to more frequent and extreme weather events, changes to agricultural and food supply patterns, and other interlinked environmental and societal tensions. In the coming decades, whole populations of people, from all corners of the planet, may be forced to move as conditions in their homes become untenable. 

The way to help people move safely is to design inclusive climate immigration plans. This will ensure that people can move before conditions degrade, have choice as to where to move to, stay with their families and receive fair and safe treatment when they’ve arrived. This will avoid loss of life, and ensure that societies can flourish with new people joining them.

Climate immigration will be difficult and complex, involving huge numbers of people and extremely challenging situations. Even countries that people move to will be affected by the climate emergency, meaning they will need to both integrate new people into their population, and adapt to the changing conditions. Efforts to stop the climate emergency from happening to begin with are essential.

This will be made easier where countries plan for large numbers of people to move into them in advance, and develop comprehensive inclusive immigration policies to help them move safely. This will require democratic global coordination, the end to hostile border controls and racist immigration policies, and increasing population numbers built into the long term plans of countries and areas which may avoid the worst impacts of the climate emergency.

Climate immigration may become a problem if countries continue to pursue anti-immigration stances and militarize their borders. This will mean people are unable to move and are killed by the climate emergency. If climate immigration systems aren’t planned humanely and in advance, large numbers of people may be forced to move at once, risking increasing chaos and unsafe passages.

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• Local Inclusion Of Migrants And Refugees (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD) 

• The century of climate migration: why we need to plan for the great upheaval (The Guardian)

• Climate Crisis and the Hostile Environment (It's Freezing in LA!)

• Support local migration care and asylum centers, for example volunteering your time to mentor or welcome people arriving in your area.

• Challenge false anti-immigration narratives in the media and among your peers to build public attention to the need to support people being forced to move due to the climate emergency.

• Advocate for your government to make long term plans to accommodate people fleeing the effects of the climate emergency, including in healthcare, housing, education and welfare systems.