Framing climate change-induced displacement: Attributing disasters to natural causes

This blog post considers the extent to which the EU and other industrialised countries can evade responsibility for the displacement of populations most affected by climate change by presenting climate-related disasters as natural, rather than man-made, events. The findings and discussion presented are based on expert interviews, analyses of policy documents and a literature review. The discussion integrates these findings to examine how the impact of framing climate-related disasters as natural events rather than anthropogenic phenomena affects the EU's responsibility for climate-induced migration from Africa as described by experts working in the region.