Human Mobility and Climate Change Adaptation Policy: A Review of Migration in National Adaptation Programmes of Actions (NAPAs)

Abstract

Despite increasing awareness of the complex linkages between migration and climate change, there is limited analysis on how issues of human mobility are currently addressed in national climate change adaption strategies. In response to this, the Migrating out of Poverty RPC conducted a comprehensive review of how migration is discussed in National Adaptation Programmes of Actions (NAPAs), which are national adaptation plans developed by Least Developed Countries (LDCs). NAPAs are intended to provide LDCs with an opportunity to create country-driven adaptation strategies that address immediate adaptation needs. Many LDCs face comparatively difficult challenges in adapting to climate change, as by definition they have severe structural impediments to growth including low per capita income, low levels of human capital and high levels of economic vulnerability