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2025, Paper: "As climate changes across the world, we can anticipate large flows of migrants both internally and internationally. This is happening now in the natural world among plants and animals. About half of the species as sessed globally by the sixth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have shifted towards the poles or to higher elevations in recent years (IPCC 2023). Humans will also move as the environment changes, as we have done throughout our history as a species. In this paper, I will describe the types of climate migrants we should expect, and how we can best prepare for their integration into receiving communities. Climate migration will pose many challenges but can also be framed positively, with informed policies leading to positive outcomes for both migrants and receiving communities."