Concluding Remarks: The Complex Nexus between Environmental Change and Migration

• Main Author: Leinonen, Johanna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Finnish
• Published: Siirtolaisuusinstituutti 2017
• Subjects: Anchorage; Arctic; Alaska
• Online Access: https://siirtolaisuus-migration.journal.fi/article/view/89698

In August 2015, at the conference “Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement, and Resilience”, held in Anchorage, Alaska, the former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the opening plenary. Addressing environmental changes taking place in the Arctic area and globally, he stated as follows: “(W)e as leaders of countries will begin to witness what we call climate refugees moving – you think migration is a challenge to Europe today because of extremism, wait until you see what happens when there’s an absence of water, an absence of food, or one tribe fighting against another for mere survival."