Climate change is an important factor in environmentally induced migration, mostly within countries, but also across borders, motivated by deliberate decisions to manage risks or adapt to changing environments and affected local economies, or driven by environmental disasters and emergencies.

Policy-relevant research on climate migration is a tremendously complex effort because it starts at the roots of migration in a specific community, gets into dialogue with the locals, needs to be translated into adequate policy advice, helping to unfold its potential to change people’s lives and living conditions. It needs an understanding of diverse social, political and environmental contexts, and communication with multiple stakeholder on local and international levels – and, thus, well-connected experts in diverse domains.

The partner organizations of the Bonn Alliance for Sustainability Research gather these connected experts under their roofs. The Bonn Alliance is a research network which jointly investigates the dynamics of global change in an inter- and transdisciplinary manner. As the networking of multiple sectors and stakeholders for sustainability research and science is deeply rooted in its DNA, the Bonn Alliance Head Office facilitates a discussion on the role of networked science on climate migration with regards to people and policies. Three Bonn Alliance partner experts provide insights into stories from the field and multiple-stakeholder negotiations: