Roots & Routes is a podcast about climate justice and human rights. In a 5-episode miniseries, I have asked first-hand witnesses and experts to talk to me about climate-induced migration. This is a complex topic, but one of the pressing issues of our age: therefore it needs airtime. In our first episode, with Carbon Brief's science journalist, Ayesha Tandon, we lay down some basics. Who are climate migrants? Or should we call them climate refugees? How and why do people move, where do they go and what kind of rights do they have? 

I invited Ayesha to Roots & Routes after reading her incredible Deep Dive Q&A on the topic. In the past few years, she talked to many experts and scientists on how the climate drives human migration, so she’s the perfect person to kick off this series.

Read more from Ayesha:

Deep Dive Q&A on migration and climate change

Inside HABITABLE: Investigating climate-driven migration in rural Thailand

Global South Climate Database

You can find Ayesha on LinkedIn and X.

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Intro sound credits:

CBS News: Climate Refugees: Nations under threat

ABC News: Central American drought creates climate change refugees

ABC News: Climate-induced famine leaves children on the brink of starvation: Part 1

ABC News: Millions in East Africa face famine triggered by drought

CBS News: Canada wildfires prompt U.S. air quality warnings

Stories: The World's First Climate Refugees

Al Jazeera English: Guatemala migrants: Climate change driving exodus

DW News: German Chancellor promises help to residents affected by worst flooding in decades | DW News

Guardian News: World on 'fast track to climate disaster', say UN secretary general

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