UK sent dire migrant warning as climate change to create 1 BILLION refugees

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Mr Khan and Bristol Mayor Marvin Rees have called for urgent action as a new report shows that climate change will lead to mass migrations into cities. The report, from the Mayor’s Migration Council, launched at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, on account of UN Migration week. According to the World Bank’s Groundswell report released last year, climate change, an increasingly potent driver of migration, could force 216 million people across six world regions to move within their countries by 2050.

The report said: “Hotspots of internal climate migration are likely to emerge as early as 2030 and could continue to spread and intensify by 2050.”

Globally, it predicted that more than a billion people are at risk of being driven from their homes for climate-related reasons.

Fortunately, the report also found that “immediate and concerted action to reduce global emissions, and support green, inclusive, and resilient development, could reduce the scale of climate migration by as much as 80 percent.”

The latest report studied several countries in Latin America, which is facing frequent extreme weather disasters like flooding, hurricanes and droughts.

The study looked at impact climate change was having in cities in the region.

It found that “up to 10.5 million climate migrants may make their way to urban centres in Mexico and Central America by 2050.”

The report said: “These estimates are drawn from the important and growing body of research that projects possible climate migration futures at the regional or country scales.

“Until now, these models have not specifically been applied to urban areas, the primary destination of international and internal migrants and home to 70 percent of the world’s refugees, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and stateless people.”

Speaking to the Guardian, Mr Khan said: “By tackling the climate crisis we can avoid the worst impacts of climate change while creating new growth and jobs opportunities in our cities.

“In London, I am working towards doubling the size of London’s green economy by 2030.”

Mr Khan, who is the chair of C40 Cities, a global network of almost 100 world-leading cities dedicated to fighting climate change, vowed to use his position to take “urgent action” to tackle the devastating human costs of forced migration that occurred due to the climate crisis

He added: “All over the world, people are already being forced to move due to the climate crisis.

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“Mayors are taking urgent action to address these issues, but we cannot do it alone.

“Cities need more funding and powers from national governments to urgently address the climate emergency at a local level.”

The report recommended investing in city governments to “implement projects that focus on the inclusion of migrant and displaced people while mitigating the impacts of the climate crisis on marginalized communities and fast-growing, at-risk urban areas.”

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