The International Organization on Migration has issued a new report Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Assessing the Evidence. The report says that in general, countries expect to manage environmental migration internally, with the exception of small island states threatened by rising sea levels that in some cases have already led to islands disappearing under water, forcing international migration.

Interestingly, the report underlines the worrying lack of policies in destination countries in the developed world to address environmental migration.

Potential future hotspots for international migration are also identified: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, most of Central America, several West African and South East Asian countries.