Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315533 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
SWP Comment No. 7/2025
Publisher: 
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin
Abstract: 
As climate change progresses, the number of people who are being forced to leave their homes and cross borders due to environmental change is increasing. At the same time, they lack safe, orderly and regular migration pathways. Regional free movement can expand the leeway for those who are particularly affected by climate change. The African regional organisations ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) and IGAD (Intergovernmental Authority on Development) have both concluded agreements that could guarantee such free movement of persons. Their examples show the potential, but also the hurdles in implementing such regulations. In order to take advantage of these agreements in terms of climate mobility, German and European development and migration policy should do more to implement regional free movement. Furthermore, it is important to support the anchoring of climate aspects in the agreements. Cooperation between the European Union (EU) and individual African states should be questioned if it threatens to hinder the free movement of people in Africa through migration management and border security.
Subjects: 
environmental change
climate change
loss and damagea
climate mobility
migration
free movement of persons
Africa
Economic Community of West African States
ECOWAS
Intergovernmental Authority on Development
IGAD
Global Compact on Migration
Nansen Initiative
Kampala Declaration
EU's external migration policy
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Document Type: 
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