In a report last year, the UN’s special rapporteur on migration, François Crépeau, warned that global migration caused by climate change in the years ahead was now “a certainty”.
Evans Davie Njewa, an environmental officer in Malawi, said that the “calamity” in Lampedusa was only one of several that global warming had influenced. Indeed, climate change was already causing annual flooding in his country’s lowland areas.
“People have to be relocated and given materiel to survive because they have lost their crops, livestock and houses,” he said. “Climate change contributes to the number of refugees. Because of the rises in temperature, their numbers will continue to rise in Africa and around the world.”
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