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Christoph Deuster
Christoph Deuster works for the Migration and Urbanization Section of the United Nations Population Division. He studied in the framework of the European Doctorate in Economics Erasmus Mundus programme at Université catholique de Louvain, and at Nova School of Business and Economics where he obtained his PhD in Economics in 2018. His research interests are in population economics and international migration.
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Climate migration frightens... climate poverty is frightening!
There has been much discourse on how long-term climate change will affect human mobility in the 21st century. This article estimates the long-term welfare and mobility responses to climate change. Depending on the scenario, climate change will force between 210 and 320 million people to move, mostly within their own countries. Massive international flows of climate refugees are unlikely, except under generalised and persistent conflicts. The poorest economies will be hardest hit, thus increasing global inequality and extreme poverty.
