‘Environmental migrants’ present entrepreneurial opportunities
26th June 2009
Simon Harding
Wealthy countries are wrong to fear a mass influx of ‘environmental migrants’ from developing countries, according to a report by the London based think-tank, the Institute for Environment and Development (IED). People uprooted by climate change in the developing world will move short distances to local towns and regional capitals in search of temporary work, rather than embark on permanent migration to the EU and US. Short distance, short term movement will characterise environmentally driven migration in the future, the IED claims.
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