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.