We do Research, We do Policy Recommendation. We do Science to Policy.
We are an international nonprofit organization based in the European Union, with offices in Brussels and Lisbon. Our work is focused on scientific research in the area of Human Rights, and Migration connected to Climate Change and its impact, not only today, but mostly in the future.
Another part of our work is dedicated to applying the knowledge gained in scientific research to everyday life. And that is made by the projects we develop, and mostly with the Policy Recommendation we develop and promote to support policy-making, creating a Science to Policy workflow. This is only possible with a great team of PhDs that empower our research output and our daily work.
We started our work in 2008 as part of the ADIJ Human Rights Education Program. In 2016 we started a dedicated path working with human rights, migrants and climate change that brought us to develop the research we develop nowadays in these areas.
But, Why Migration and Climate Change?
Some predictions suggested that, due to climate change, we will have in the next 30 years between 30 million and 1 billion people displaced. These predictions are supported by the repeating records on the planet’s higher temperatures, with parts of the earth becoming less habitable, with deterioration of agricultural lands, desertification, and water pollution. With natural disasters multiplicating year by year, and millions of people displaced by sudden-onset climate-related natural disasters.
If we take these events in account, and the fact that the global temperatures are expected to rise between 2 and 5 degrees centigrade by the end of this century, it is not easy to discard the possibility of having around 12% of the global population moving to another country and region.
Although it is almost impossible to be sure about the number of displacements, and when or where it will happen, these statistics help us to focus on policies that can mitigate the impact of climate change on migration.
This is why it is important to think, research, and rethink how to approach the challenges this new climate reality will bring us globally and locally. This is why we research and work on new solutions that support communities, countries, regions, and most of all, people.
In our work, we do research on Human Rights, Migration and Climate Change. The outcome of our research makes it possible to apply science to the development of policy recommendations, making the bridge between Science and Policy. And promoting also the capacitation of policy-makers, educators, and most of all: citizens.