Climate Change Displacement & Climate Refugees

The Event

SWM member BVSC run an Environment & Energy Network and the next meeting takes place during Refugee Week 2025, with the meeting focusing on Climate Change Displacement & Climate Refugees.

According to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, “Climate Change and displacement are increasingly interconnected. As extreme weather events and environmental conditions worsen with global heating, they are contributing to multiple and overlapping crises, threatening human rights, increasing poverty and loss of livelihoods, straining peaceful relations between communities and, ultimately, creating conditions for further forced displacement”.

Birmingham is a City of Sanctuary caring for refugees and migrants in our community; how can we ensure that we create a place of hospitality and welcome for those fleeing Climate Change related impacts?