Whether we like it or not, the truth is that the money needed to prevent and resolve climate displacement has not been forthcoming and is unlikely to be for a very long time, if ever. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that 1.6-3.8 trillion (1.6T-3.8T) will be needed each year to avoid warming of more than 1.5C.]In 2021, global GDP is just shy of 93T. In 2009 the world's wealthy nations committed to channel USD 100 billion (100B) to less wealthy countries annually to tackling climate change, but to date have fallen far short from this target. Some have alleged that the estimates of the funds that have been raised thus far are wildly exaggerated, and that even if 100B were provided each year that this would come nowhere near solving the climate crisis. While calculations vary widely from only slightly more than 10B in total to just short of 100B, the prevailing understanding is simply that "Trillions of dollars will be needed each year to meet the 2015 Paris agreement goal of restricting global warming to well-below 2C, if not 1.5C, above pre-industrial temperatures.  A Climate Displacement Levy on the world's 2,800 billionaires at 1% of their respective fortunes…...

After two intensive days of discussion, the DS-hosted Roundtable on Improving Land Access for Climate Displaced Persons and Communities adopted THE CLIMATE LAND STATEMENT. The brief statement, agreed by consensus, outlines seven steps that should be pursued by all States, UN agencies and others to protect the rights of climate displaced persons and communities throughout the international community. Among other things, the Statement affirms the central role of land in resolving climate displacement, as well as urging authorities to assemble national land inventories for land to be allocated to those in need of new homes and lands. The full text of the Statement is available here: The Climate Land Statement - 2016. The full report of the meeting - kindly prepared by Zeke Simperingham - is available here: 2016 - DS Land Access for Climate Displaced Persons and Communities Roundtable Report  ...

The Bangladesh HLP Initiative has been active in supporting and encouraging print and electronic media in Bangladesh to report on the needs of climate displaced persons across the country.  A selection of articles and reports on climate displacement in Bangladesh and the work of the Bangladesh HLP Initiative follows: Coastal Bangladesh, Orientation to Lawyers on Climate Displacement Held, 13 July 2015: Dhaka Tribune, Critical Role of Land in Solving Climate Displacement, 25 November 2015. Dhaka Tribune, The Urgent Need for Rights-Based Solutions to Climate Displacement in Bangladesh, 16 November 2015. Coastal Bangladesh, Climate Displacement in Bangladesh and Durable Solutions, 8 September 2014. New York Times, Borrowed Time on Disappearing Land - Facing Rising Seas, Bangladesh Confronts the Consequences of Climate Change, 28 March, 2014. The Financial Express, Climate Displacement and Durable Solutions, 6 February 2014. For a selection of Bengali press on climate displacement and the Bangladesh HLP Initiative, please see here. To get in touch with the Bangladesh HLP Initiative, please email: info@displacementsolutions.org....

Kadir van Lohuizen's extraordinary Where Will We Go Exhibition, backed by DS, UNEP, the Netherlands government and others, opened today at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Exhibition which first appeared in December 2014 at the COP meetings in Lima, Peru has since travelled the globe giving ever larger numbers of people direct access to photographic evidence of the tragic and growing reality of climate displacement throughout the world. If you happen to be in New York in the coming weeks, please try to make a point of visiting the UN to see Kadir's amazing photographs. If you would be interested in hosting future exhibitions of the Where Will We Go presentation, please let us know. Several images of the Exhibition appear below....