The Truth About Climate Migration – It’s More Complicated Than You Think

  • The Rest Is Politics

  • 6 August 2026

  • Posted by Alastair Campbell

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Are people really migrating because of changes in the climate? Who pays when a nation is destroyed by a crisis it didn't cause? And what does it cost, financially and emotionally,  to leave home for good?


Join Caroline Lucas, Alex Randall and Aminath Shauna as they discuss all of these questions and more. 


⁠⁠⁠Read the redacted Joint Intelligence Committee Report here⁠⁠⁠


⁠⁠⁠Find out more about the National Emergency Briefing here.⁠⁠⁠


⁠Discover Climate Outreach's work here⁠


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