英和和英

名詞

climate refugee (plural climate refugees)

1. (now rare) A person who moves somewhere with a more pleasant or healthy climate. [from 1980s]
   1. A person who is forced to flee their home due to anthropogenic climate change that made their region unliveable. [from 1980s]
      • 2023 March 29, David Allen, The New York Times‎:

        His best friend, the nature writer Barry Lopez, died of prostate cancer that December, three months after a wildfire had burned parts of his home near the McKenzie River in Oregon, making him a climate refugee.

      • 2023 November 11, Nic Fildes, “Australia offers Tuvalu islanders resident visas to escape effects of global warming”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:

        “Climate refugees” often wanted to stay in their own country to preserve their society and culture, according to research published by the New Zealand Association for Impact Assessment.

      • 2023 December 8, “COP28: Tuvalu negotiator travelled 8,000 miles to save her home”, in BBC News‎:

        Recognising the existential threat facing these communities, in November close neighbour Australia offered climate refugee visas to Pacific Islanders.

      • 2024 April 15, Matthew Rozsa, Salon‎:

        Kalmus also noted that becoming a climate refugee is not as easy as simply making a choice to move out of a suddenly-uninhabitable location. Uprooting one's life is inherently difficult, and the current geopolitical climate is not exactly welcoming to would-be climate migrants.