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World leaders at Cop27 urged to create safe routes for climate refugees
A photograph taken from the air of a sinking refugee dinghy in the central Mediterranean
WORLD leaders attending Cop27 were urged on the final day of the summit to act now to create safe routes for refugees fleeing climate breakdown.
In a joint statement today, British refugee and migrant rights groups stressed that the issue of climate refugees must be included in negotiations during the summit in Egypt.
“As organisations that work with people on the front lines of climate breakdown, we know first-hand that for many, migration is already a survival strategy,” the statement, signed by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants, UK City of Sanctuary and Migrants Organise says.
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