Exploring climate, disasters and migration by Climate & Migration

This podcast explore the relationship between climate change disasters and migration.
Credits:
Music: Chris Zabriskie (http://freemusicarchive.org/music/chris_zabriskie)
Cover image: Henry Donati/Department for International Development Creative Commons (CC BY 2.0)

Not all disasters happen at the same speed. Consider two examples.

1. Typhoon Haiyan / Yolanda made landfall in the Philippines on the 8th of November. It had been identified as one of the most powerful Typhoons ever recorded only hours before. In a few hours it had killed 6,000 people and injured nearly 30,000. The typhoon displaced 4 million. By the 9th of November the storm had moved into Vietnamese and Chinese territory.

2. In July 2011 a severe drought hit the Horn of Africa. It lasted almost an entire year. By September 2012 nearly a million people had fled Somalia to camps in Kenya and Ethiopia. Early warning systems first forecast the looming disaster 11 months before it hit. The massive displacement was created partly by the fact the region had been made more vulnerable by previous droughts.