Tuuli Kaskinen presented at the seminar of Siemenpuu foundation: http://www.siemenpuu.fi/?news_article=5612

1. • Finnish climate policy and
climate refugees
• Displacement induced by Environmental Problems and Development
• Siemenpuu Foundation
• Tuuli Kaskinen
• Demos Helsinki

2. National level...

3. Hits of ”climate refugees”...

4. Hits of ”climate refugees”...
Parliament documents 0
Ministry for Foreign Affaires 1
Government Foresight Report on 3
Long-term Climate and Energy
Policy

5. Hits of ”climate refugees”...
Parliament documents 0
Ministry for Foreign Affaires 1
Government Foresight Report on 3
Long-term Climate and Energy
Policy

6. Hits of ”climate refugees”...
Parliament documents 0
Ministry for Foreign Affaires 1
Government Foresight Report on 3
Long-term Climate and Energy
Policy

11. Government
Foresight Report on
Long-term Climate
and Energy Policy

12. Government
Foresight Report on
Long-term Climate
and Energy Policy

13. Bubbling under...

16. City of Helsinki: Report on future land use

17. If the service structure in Etelä-
Savo stays as it is, Finland should
accept some 10 million
migrants in 20 years.

19. European level...

20. Source: Guardian

21. "There is a real risk that, in the future, we'll
have climatic refugees"
Source: Louis Michel, the European Commissioner for Development and Humanitaria

22. Source: Berlingske Tidende

23. Denmark (as only EU country) has accepted
climate refugees from Afganistan and East-
Africa.
Source: Berlingske Tidende

25. The question of climate
refugees is mentioned,
but hardly any refugee policy
exists.

26. How are European countries affected when
talking about climate refugees?

27. 500 million people – nearly 10 % of the
world's population – are at risk from
displacement by climate change.
Source: Environmental Justice Foundation, 2009

28. Too much water
Too little water
Tropical cyclones
Melting ice
Changing seas

30. Large-scale shocks and financial
contagion originating from poorer countries
who are more vulnerable to climate change
will also pose growing risks for rich
countries, with increasing pressures for
large-scale migration and political instability.
Source: Stern review 2006

31. “People would move on a massive scale.
Hundreds of millions, probably billions of
people would have to move if you talk about
4-, 5-, 6-degree increases”. And that would
mean extended global conflict, “because
there’s no way the world can handle that kind
of population move in the time period in which
it would take place.”
Source: Guardian

32. "What would happen if a state was to
physically disappear but people want to keep
their nationalities? It could continue as a
virtual or ghost state even though it is a
rock under the ocean and its people no longer
live on that piece of land."
Source: Environmental Justice Foundation, 2009

34. Maledivian government

36. Open questions
from Finnish point of view at the moment

37. Open questions
from Finnish point of view at the moment
1. How fast we can reduce emissions in Finland?

38. Open questions
from Finnish point of view at the moment
1. How fast we can reduce emissions in Finland?
2. How climate refugee policy differs from other
types of migration?

39. Open questions
from Finnish point of view at the moment
1. How fast we can reduce emissions in Finland?
2. How climate refugee policy differs from other
types of migration?
3. Is there a risk of global conflict and then what is
the role of Finns in avoiding and solving it?