professorjane mcadam from the university of new south wales in sydney, is an expert on the legal aspects of climate migration. where are they displaced from and where did they go? this is something that is happening around the world now, there s really no part of the globe that is untouched. in the asia pacific region in the last decade or so we have seen about 80% of displacement linked to disasters and the impacts of climate change. as i said it really does not matter when, people are already are on the move. in most places they re already moving in their own countries, not across international borders but we don t have great ways of who is crossing the border or counting
professorjane mcadam from the university of new south wales in sydney, is an expert on the legal aspects of climate migration, she told me more about this ongoing displacement. this is something that is happening around the world now and there is really no part of the globe that is untouched. in the globe that is untouched. in the asia pacific region in the last decade or so we ve seen about 80% of internal displacement to disasters and the impacts of climate change, but as i said it really doesn t matter where we look now, people are already on the move. in most cases they are at this point within their own countries rather than across international borders but of course we don t have very good ways of even counting who is crossing the border because of the impacts of climate change and disasters because there are these categories that enable people to move or that captures that kind of motivation for movement. there aren t these