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In the newest episode of PolicyCast, Harvard professors Jacqueline Bhabha (ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø) and Hannah Teicher (GSD) discuss ways to help those displaced by climate change as places across the planet become less habitable.

There are already hundreds of millions of people globally who have been forced to relocate for climate-related reasons, including rising seas, extreme heat, catastrophic weather, and climate-related famine. Experts say as many as a billion people could be seeking new homes by 2050. Meanwhile, immigration is a political flashpoint in many countries, including the United States. 

In the Harvard Kennedy School's most recent episode of PolicyCast, Jacqueline Bhabha and Hannah Teicher speak with host Ralph Rannali about the pressing questions facing climate refugees, examining everything from the language we use when we talk about climate migration to international law and human rights to urban planning policies that can help create win-win situations when newcomers arrive.

The professors are examining everything from the language we use when we talk about climate migration to international law and human rights to urban planning policies that can help create win-win situations when newcomers arrive. A large part of adjusting successfully to a shift in our planet's habitable spaces will involve another difficult change—to our way of thinking about how we share the world with our fellow humans. 

Listen to the podcast here.