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The White House recently released a report that marks the first time the U.S. Government is officially reporting on the link between climate change and migration.

“Migration in response to climate impacts may range from mobility as a proactive adaptation strategy to forced displacement in the face of life-threatening risks,” the report said, “This mobility may occur within or across international borders.”

This report provides an overview of climate change and its impact on migration that informs a proposal for how U.S. foreign assistance can better address the effects of climate change impacts on displacement and migration. It also outlines options for protection and resettlement of individuals displaced directly or indirectly from climate change and identifies opportunities for the United States to work with other stakeholders, including through multilateral engagement, to address migration resulting directly or indirectly from climate change.

The report concludes with a primary recommendation and a list of considerations for further evaluation that may guide the United States’ approach to climate migration, if funding and policy priorities allow.

The report recommends the establishment of a standing interagency policy process on Climate Change and Migration to coordinate U.S. Government efforts to mitigate and respond to migration resulting from the impacts of climate change that brings together representatives across the scientific, development, humanitarian, and peace and security elements of the U.S. Government.

President Biden directed the issuance of the report in his February “Executive Order on Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration.”

“The Biden administration’s report is a major milestone, representing the first time the U.S. government has formally recognized the link between climate change and migration,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.

“It is an important acknowledgement of a troubling lack of a policy framework to protect those uprooted by the climate crisis. We are grateful that federal officials are taking proactive steps to align outdated public policy with the reality of this 21st century challenge and to expand access to refuge to those increasingly impacted by climate disaster,” she said.

She said that the “time for action to protect climate-displaced people is overdue, and the U.S. is uniquely positioned to lead the way. As one of the world’s largest carbon emitters, we have a moral responsibility to strengthen protection pathways for people who are losing their homes and livelihoods to the climate disaster.”

The report is available here.