Evolution, challenges and trends in internal displacement 2012, para. 55

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Megatrends and overriding social or other factors, such as climate change, exert pressures which interact closely with and often exacerbate internal displacement. Those significant global megatrends include population growth, rapid urbanization, increased human mobility, and food, water and energy insecurity. Those megatrends, which themselves are likely to have a negative impact on human rights and potentially cause displacement, are, moreover, predicted to interact with the effects of sudden and slow onset climate change and affect the magnitude and patterns of internal displacement (A/66/285, para. 28). Against this background and related social and political pressures, climate change is predicted to act as an impact multiplier and accelerator of internal displacement, which will be characterized by multiple causalities, including conflicts and insecurity due to competition over resources or loss of livelihoods (ibid., para. 29).
Legal status
Non-negotiated soft law
Body
Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons
Document type
Special Procedures' report
Means of adoption
N.A.
Topic(s)
  • Environment
  • Movement
Person(s) affected
  • Persons on the move
Year
2012
Paragraph type
Other
Reference
SR Internally Displaced Persons, Report to the UNGA (2012), A/67/289, para. 55.
Paragraph number
55