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EU told to prepare itself for millions of climate change refugees

Published by Simon Leufstedt on July 3rd, 2008 in Global Warming.

Refugee children waiting with their family for a food distribution

Refugee children waiting with their family for a food distribution. Photo by Nicolas Rost.

Two senior foreign policy officials from the European Union says in a new report that the EU should “brace itself” for a new and much larger wave of migration, caused by the effects of climate change. According to their report climate change “threatens to severely destabilise the planet” and will make a fifth of the worlds population homeless.

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