IIED's video: Climate-driven loss and damage health and wellbeing

Developing countries are dealing with the increasingly harmful effects of climate change, often at higher intensity than they are equipped to handle. Vulnerable communities and countries can no longer absorb the effects of climate change or adapt to the impacts, which can compel people to migrate to find alternate ways to make a living, or even to keep themselves alive. The effects are vast. In 2022, the IPCC estimated that, between 31-72 million people across sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America will be displaced by 2050. Whole areas will empty: the World Bank predicts that by 2050, 216 million communities will be internally displaced by climate change. While migration can help people, the experience threatens physical and mental health and wellbeing along with other consequences and risks. Planning for, responding to and recovering from such harms requires wider recognition of the causal links between climate-driven loss and damage, migration and health issues, and an integrated cross-sector effort to address them. In this presentation, Ritu Bharadwaj, principal researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), unpacks the nexus between climate change and health issues and explores how is loss and damage is leading to large-scale displacement and distress migration. More information: https://www.iied.org/iied-short-seminars-challenges-for-post-covid-19-world