Sea-Watch captain Rackete says Europe must take in climate refugees
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The collapse of the climate system is resulting in refugees that Europe 鈥渙f course鈥� has to take in, German Sea-Watch captain Carola Rackete said . Rackete was arrested in June after she forced her ship carrying 40 migrants rescued off the Libyan coast into the Italian port of Lampedusa. 鈥淐limate flight is already a big issue today,鈥� the Sea-Watch captain said. 鈥淲e had people from ten different countries on the boat. It鈥檚 particularly bad in Bangladesh, but also in the Pacific, where islands are flooded, or in the deserts of Africa.鈥� She stressed that 鈥渨e must lower CO2 emissions to zero. If we live in an environmentally-friendly way, we are also helping the people in Africa, where the climate change can already been seen even more clearly than in Europe. We must not further heat up the earth.鈥�
The World Bank estimates that 鈥渢he worsening impacts of climate change in three densely populated regions of the world could see over 140 million people move within their countries鈥� borders by 2050鈥�. In Germany, an Advisory Council on Global Change () has proposed four possible initiatives for fair climate policy, including providing support for regions in transition and those most affected by climate change, and creating humane and dignified migration options for people forced to leave their countries due to climate change.
