As the effects of climate change continue to intensify across East Africa, two significant upcoming events aim to address the growing vulnerability of displaced communities and marginalized groups. The CLARS (Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies) stakeholder workshops in Kenya and Uganda will bring together a diverse range of experts, policymakers, and community leaders to discuss climate change’s differential impacts and explore practical solutions.

A new study led by Dr. Gail Krantzberg, Dr. Carolyn Johns, and Dr. Amanda Shankland addresses the growing challenges communities face as climate change disrupts water systems worldwide. The research focuses on the vital connection between community resilience and effective water governance.

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – December 2024 – The Climate Adaptation and Resilience Strategies (CLARS) research workshop was held  in Dar es Salaam, bringing together a diverse group of researchers, policymakers, and community stakeholders from across the Lake Victoria Basin (LVB) region. The workshop, took place on 10-11 December 2024 at the Slipway Hotel, and was a pivotal step in refining the project’s research design and methodologies, focusing on climate-induced migration, socio-economic vulnerabilities, and adaptation strategies for communities in East Africa.

The two-day event served as an important milestone for the CLARS project, which aims to better understand the intersection of climate change, migration, and resilience in the Lake Victoria Basin region. The first day of the workshop, dedicated to internal discussions, involved a series of expert presentations by CLARS project partners, setting the stage for practical planning and collaborative research development. The second day, open to external stakeholders, expanded the conversation to include government representatives, civil society organizations, and international development partners, with an emphasis on enhancing research uptake and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration.

BAKU, Nov 22 (IPS) - COP29 delegates have elaborated on how Africa’s dependency on agriculture is becoming increasingly untenable amidst alarming levels of global warming, wrecking havoc on the sector. Coastal communities, pastoralists, and those in the drylands are in the thick of the climate chaos.

Options for sustainable livelihoods have shrunk. The search for greener pastures is such that nearly 1.2 million people will move beyond national boundaries in the African continent by 2050 due to climate change, and more than half of climate-related migrants in 2050 will come from Africa.

Makasa Looking Horse Henry is the traditional ecological knowledge community navigator for the Global Climate Change Centre at Six Nations of the Grand River. She says the plant has been taking fresh water that belongs to her community.

"It's taking away water from our future generations. Even right now, we're in a water crisis, so a big company taking any water and making a profit off it is extremely wrong in my view," she said.

CLARS Project Co-Principal Investigator Dr. Julia M. Blocher, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), presented cutting edge research on climate-related migration at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), more commonly known as COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024.

Photo credit Jaclyn Licht/Global Centre for Climate Mobility

Toronto, September 16-19, 2024 — Researchers from various disciplines gathered in Fall for a kickoff meeting aimed at addressing the pressing issue of climate migration. The event, held at the McMaster University’s Bloor Street Campus, marked the official start of the CLARS project, a collaborative project designed to foster understanding and awareness of the experiences of climate migrants in the Great Lakes region of North America and the Lake Victoria Basin in Africa.

Two academics at the University of Worcester are part of a global research project looking at climate-induced migration and building resilience for communities.

Professor Gail Krantzberg receives $1.5M grant to investigate effects of urban migration due to climate change 

The impacts of climate change on human mobility are projected to be significant, with estimates suggesting that anywhere from 200 million to 2 billion people could be on the move by the end of the century

Canada is leading an “International Joint Initiative for Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation”. This initiative represents a collaboration between research funders from Brazil, Germany, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States to leverage international expertise to tackle the global challenges caused by climate change.