Migration and climate change – The role of social protection

Silchenko, Darya; Murray, Úna

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2022.100472

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“… 8 Adaptive social protection offers an opportunity to help reduce the health consequences of climate hazards, providing health-care access for climate-induced displaced populations, and encouraging post-hazard care uptake. 32 , 33 Social protection schemes can also incentivize mitigation actions at the household level, such as installing solar panels or insulating houses, with health co-benefits. 31 Perhaps most importantly for health, adaptive social protection mechanisms can greatly vary in terms of equity of outcomes and fund additionality, with experts cautioning against an excessive reliance on private insurance mechanisms.…”

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Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems

Borghi,

Garcia-Dorado,

Anton

et al. 2024

Bull World Health Organ

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Climate change poses significant risks to health and health systems, with the greatest impacts in low- and middle-income countries – which are least responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The Conference of Parties 28 at the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference led to agreement on the need for holistic and equitable financing approaches to address the climate and health crisis. This paper provides an overview of existing climate finance mechanisms – that is, multilateral funds, voluntary market-based mechanisms, taxes, microlevies and adaptive social protection. We discuss these approaches’ potential use to promote health, generate additional health sector resources and enhance health system sustainability and resilience, and also explore implementation challenges. We suggest that public health practitioners, policy-makers and researchers seize the opportunity to leverage climate funding for better health and sustainable, climate-resilient health systems. Emphasizing the wider benefits of investing in health for the economy can help prioritize health within climate finance initiatives. Meaningful progress will require the global community acknowledging the underlying political economy challenges that have so far limited the potential of climate finance to address health goals. To address these challenges, we need to restructure financing institutions to empower communities at the frontline of the climate and health crisis and ensure their needs are met. Efforts from global and national level stakeholders should focus on mobilizing a wide range of funding sources, prioritizing co-design and accessibility of financing arrangements. These stakeholders should also invest in rigorous monitoring and evaluation of initiatives to ensure relevant health and well-being outcomes are addressed.

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Section: Adaptive Social Protectionmentioning

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Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems

Borghi,

Garcia-Dorado,

Anton

et al. 2024

Bull World Health Organ

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“…less than 10% of international climate finance reaches local levels (Soanes et al, 2017). For smallholder farmers in rural regions, highly vulnerable to climate variability, the received share of tracked climate finance surmounts to a meager 1.7% and covers only a small fraction of what is needed (Chiriac & Naran, 2020).…”

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“…In the instance of droughts in Southern and Eastern Africa, the impacts for rural households escalate until the 11th month and the associated costs of not providing a timely response equals a 3.9% reduction of per capita income in the long term (Hill et al, 2019). Even comparatively simple SP schemes like unconditional cash or in‐kind transfers to poor and climate‐vulnerable households can constitute a “game changer” if they move the threshold for resorting to negative coping mechanisms such as the selling of productive assets, reducing food intake, or distress migration (Anderson, 2021; Bowen et al, 2020; Silchenko & Murray, 2023; Figure 4).…”

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“…Further approaches to address climate‐related loss and damage could be continuous or one‐off payments for reconstruction of housing, infrastructure, and productive assets. Pertaining to human mobility, some evidence suggests that SP can be a factor in reducing distress migration by promoting and enabling in‐situ adaptation as an alternative to maladaptive mobility patterns (Bharadwaj, Devanshu, et al, 2021; Bharadwaj, Hazra, et al, 2021; Silchenko & Murray, 2023,). On the other hand, SP can remove financial barriers to migration, reducing the risk of exposure to climate change impacts and unlocking the potential of migration providing adaptation possibilities through income‐generating and livelihood‐diversifying opportunities.…”

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Turning climate justice into practice? Channeling loss and damage funding through national social protection systems in climate‐vulnerable countries

Huber,

Murray

2023

WIREs Climate Change

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Despite the last‐minute breakthrough agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference COP27 to provide funding for climate‐related loss and damage for vulnerable countries, distribution mechanisms and funding sources remain up for debate. With rapid‐onset climate impacts intensifying and slow‐onset impacts further manifesting, loss and damage from climate change is already occurring. Thus, quick, effective, and transparent distribution of upcoming funds is necessary. Currently, only a tiny fraction of existing sources of climate finance reaches affected communities, commonly marked by high levels of poverty and low levels of adaptive capacity. Similarly, donor‐based global humanitarian aid and development systems are buckling under the weight of increasing demand. As increasing climate impacts threaten to reverse development gains of the last decades, climate‐sensitive social protection has received increasing attention for its potential to address climate impacts and to strengthen the adaptive capacity and resilience of climate‐vulnerable populations. This review article explores the prospects of channeling Loss and Damage funding through existing national social protection systems and highlights how this approach can efficiently contribute to safeguarding development gains, including previously overlooked aspects such as noneconomic loss and damage (NELD), while also dismantling soft adaptation barriers and thus fostering climate resilience in the long term. Although we identify barriers, including gaps in coverage of social protection systems both between and within countries, we argue that channeling some L&D funding through social protection systems aligns with core human rights and climate justice agendas, as well as the principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Respective Capabilities.This article is categorized under: Integrated Assessment of Climate Change > Assessing Climate Change in the Context of Other Issues Policy and Governance > International Policy Framework Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation

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“…There is potential to link adaptive social protection schemes for climate hazards to health insurance, providing access to healthcare for those most likely to be impacted by a hazard. 13 In addition, unconditional cash transfers can improve access to health services and improve health outcomes among mothers and children. 14 During drought in Kenya, for example, cash transfers were distributed to children and orphans to ensure access to health check-ups.…”

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Opportunities and challenges for financing women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in the context of climate change

Anton,

Cuevas,

Hanson

et al. 2024

BMJ Glob Health

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Women, children and adolescents (WCA), especially in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), will bear the worst consequences of climate change during their lifetimes, despite contributing the least to global greenhouse gas emissions. Investing in WCA can address these inequities in climate risk, as well as generating large health, economic, social and environmental gains. However, women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (WCAH) is currently not mainstreamed in climate policies and financing. There is also a need to consider new and innovative financing arrangements that support WCAH alongside climate goals.We provide an overview of the threats climate change represents for WCA, including the most vulnerable communities, and where health and climate investments should focus. We draw on evidence to explore the opportunities and challenges for health financing, climate finance and co-financing schemes to enhance equity and protect WCAH while supporting climate goals.WCA face threats from the rising burden of ill-health and healthcare demand, coupled with constraints to healthcare provision, impacting access to essential WCAH services and rising out-of-pocket payments for healthcare. Climate change also impacts on the economic context and livelihoods of WCA, increasing the risk of displacement and migration. These impacts require additional resources to support WCAH service delivery, to ensure continuity of care and protect households from the costs of care and enhance resilience. We identify a range of financing solutions, including leveraging climate finance for WCAH, adaptive social protection for health and adaptations to purchasing to promote climate action and support WCAH care needs.

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Migration and climate change – The role of social protection

Cited by 24 publications

References 53 publications

Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems

Climate finance opportunities for health and health systems

Turning climate justice into practice? Channeling loss and damage funding through national social protection systems in climate‐vulnerable countries

Opportunities and challenges for financing women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health in the context of climate change

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