Already more than 30 million people flee their villages, regions or countries every year because of climate change. By 2050, it's estimated there will be between 200 million and 1 billion climate refugees. As extreme weather threatens the lives of hundreds of millions of people, how can the world best respond?

Faced with these migrations, the international community seems incapable of agreeing on the definition of a "climate refugee" and suitable compensation for them. Currently climate refugees are not covered by the 1951 Refugee Convention. The specter of waves of unrestrained migration is brandished for populist purposes to justify the locking of borders.

But, in the absence of a global response, the countries and regions most affected by the climate change/migration problem are taking the initiative.

Climate Refugees: A Global Challenge explores these challenges through the prism of individual human stories and innovative initiatives in Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. In the long term, they could become models for change well beyond their borders.

56 minutes.

Directed by François-Xavier Trégan

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"In Climate Refugees: A Global Challenge, the argument is simple but profound: People need rights as well as shelter. Through the personal stories of those in Bangladesh, Colombia, and Fiji, the film explores how the Global South is pioneering solutions to displacement - and asks what the Global North is doing to help. This is a timely investigation into how we can preserve not just lives, but the ancestral identities tied to the lands currently under threat." —Lisa Meierotto, Associate Professor of Global and Environmental Studies, Boise State University