UN compact on migration include climate change

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 A UN compact on migration adopted Monday in Marrakesh mentions — for the first time in a high-level migration document — climate change as a driver of migration. The World’s Carolyn Beeler looks at why this population doesn’t already have legal protections and what this document might change.

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