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Is the world prepared for climate refugees?
Senior US military experts say the effects of climate change could cause a migration wave of 20 million climate refugees over the next 20 years.

But climate risk insurance schemes could prevent it.

Days before the climate change summit in Bonn, a new report warns that failure to stop climate change will force tens of millions of people from their homes.

The report from the Environmental Justice Foundation, based on interviews with senior US military and security experts, concludes that climate change will create far more refugees than have fled the Syrian civil war.

The EJF is calling on the delegates in Bonn to create a global climate risk insurance framework to protect climate refugees.

“In our rapidly changing world, climate change — and its potential to trigger both violent conflict and mass migration — needs to be considered as urgent priority,” says…

The COP23 climate change summit in Bonn and why it matters.
Halting dangerous global warming means putting the landmark Paris agreement into practice – without the US – and tackling the divisive issue of compensation.

The people of Kiribati are under pressure to relocate due to sea-level rise. Photograph: Jonas Gratzer/LightRocket via Getty Images

Damian Carrington

Environment editor

Sunday 5 November 2017
What is happening?

The world’s nations are meeting for the 23rd annual “conference of the parties” (COP) under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) which aims to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”, ie halt global warming.

It is taking place in Bonn, Germany from 6-17 November.
Why does it matter?

Climate change is already significantly increasing the likelihood of extreme weather, from heatwaves to floods.

But without sharp cuts to global carbon emissions, we can expect “severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts” for billions…

COP23: What’s at stake?
International climate agreements are hard-won through laborious negotiations and COP23 will be no different.

The event may be taking place in Bonn, but Fiji’s presidency sends a clear signal to the likes of Donald Trump.

Usually, the country holding presidency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hosts it’s annual conference.
But Fiji, the country with that honor in 2017, was in no position to accomodate the 25,000 negotiators, environmental activists and journalists converging on COP23 from around the world. Apart from anything, the South Pacific island nation doesn’t have convention center anywhere near large enough.

Fiji’s President Bainimarama will put the plight of island nations center-stage

So, from November 6 to 17, the hordes are descending instead on Bonn, Germany — home of the UNFCCC headquarters.

But Fiji will preside over the event — or more specifically, the country’s president, former naval…