The Climate Migration Council is a group of leaders who share a commitment to putting people at the center of climate action and to accelerating global solutions to climate migration.
Together, we urge governments and other relevant stakeholders across the globe to develop and adopt equitable and inclusive solutions to address climate mobility. Specifically, the Climate Migration Council strives to:
Because the climate crisis acts as a powerful accelerant and driver to migration patterns, we need clear institutional leadership and new integrated strategies that anticipate and safely accommodate the increasing numbers of people affected by the climate crisis.
As signatories to the Climate Migration Declaration, we have committed to press leaders and multilateral organizations on this growing issue.
We are the Climate
Migration Council:
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
University Professor and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School; United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (2010-2015)
Luis Almagro
10th Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)
Carlos Alvarado Quesada
President of Costa Rica (2018-2022)
José Andrés
Founder of World Central Kitchen
Manish Bapna
President and CEO of National Resources Defense Council
Colette Pichon Battle, Esq.
Co-founder and Vision & Initiatives Partner for Taproot Earth
Melissa Blaustein
Former Mayor of Sausalito, California, United States
Carl J. Bon Tempo
Associate Professor of History, University at Albany, SUNY
John Bridgeland
Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, United States
Sharon Burke
President of Ecospherics and former Assistant Secretary of Defense (2010-2014)
Dr. Rebecca Bill Chavez
President of Inter-American Dialogue; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Western Hemisphere (2013-2016)
Michael Chertoff
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2005-2009)
Laura Chinchilla
President of Costa Rica (2010-2014)
Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper (ret.)
Fourth Director of National Intelligence, United States (2010-2017)
Dr. Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe
Professor of Population Studies, University of Ghana
Ivan Duque
President of Colombia (2018-2022)
Jan Egeland
Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council
Maribel Escobar
Alcaldesa de La Palma Chalatenango, El Salvador
John Feeley
Executive Director for Center for Media Integrity of the Americas
Elizabeth Ferris
Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Badruun Gardi
Founder of New Nomad Institute
Lori Garver
Deputy Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (2009-2013)
François Gemenne
Director of the Hugo Observatory at Liege University
Todd Gloria
Mayor of San Diego, California, United States
Sergio Diaz Granados
Executive President of CAF – Development Bank of Latin America
Timothy J. Greene, Sr.
Makah Tribal Council Chairman, Neah Bay, Washington, United States
Michael B. Hancock
Former Mayor of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, United States
Becca Heller
Executive Director and Co-Founder of International Refugee Assistance Project
Mark Hetfield
President and CEO of HIAS
Roberta Jacobson
Former United States Ambassador to Mexico, and Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Brett Jenks
CEO of Rare
Cecilia Jimenez-Damary
UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Walter Kaelin
Envoy of the Chair of Platform on Disaster Displacement; Former Representative of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons
Timothy M. Keller
Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Tim Kelly
Mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Jeremy Konyndyk
President, Refugees International
Fred Krupp
President, Environmental Defense Fund
Claudia López Hernández
Former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia
Arancha Gonzalez Laya
Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union, and Cooperation of Spain (2020-2021)
Jane McAdam AO
Scientia Professor of Law and Director of the Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law at UNSW
Tjada D'Oyen McKenna
Chief Executive Officer, Mercy Corps
Robert McLeman
Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Anya McMurray
President & COO, Welcome.US
Nicole Melaku
Executive Director, National Partnership For New Americans
David Miliband
President & CEO of International Rescue Committee Former Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the United Kingdom
Mr. Abdikarim Ahmed Moge
Mayor of Hargeisa, Somaliland
Michael Morell
Deputy CIA Director, United States (2010-2013)
Cecilia Muñoz
Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, United States
Dr. Raya Muttarak
Professor of Demography, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Bologna (Italy)
Janet Napolitano
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2009-2013)
Michelle Nunn
President and CEO of CARE USA
Leon E. Panetta
U.S. Secretary of Defense (2011-2013)
Rachel Perić
Executive Director, Welcoming America
Dr. Navi Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008-2014)
Amy Pope
Director General, International Organizations for Migration (IOM)
Laurene Powell Jobs
Founder and President of Emerson Collective
Jaime Pumarejo Heins
Former Mayor of Barranquilla, Colombia
Marta Lucia Ramirez
Vice President of Colombia (2018-2022)
Erika Pires Ramos
Public Lawyer and Researcher, and Co-founder of the South American Network for Environmental Migrations (RESAMA) and the Latin American Observatory on Human Mobility, Climate Change and Disasters (MOVE-LAM)
Marvin Rees
Former Mayor of Bristol, United Kingdom
Dan Restrepo
Senior Fellow at Center for American Progress; Special Assistant to President Obama for Western Hemisphere Affairs (2009-2012)
Satya Rhodes-Conway
Mayor of Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Fernando Riosmena
Professor of Sociology & Demography, University of Texas, San Antonio
Arturo Rodriguez
United Farm Workers President Emeritus
Teresa Romero
President of the United Farm Workers
Celeste Saulo
Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization
Libby Schaaf
Former Mayor of Oakland, California, United States
Br. Michael Schöpf SJ
Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Deputy International Director
Dr. Matthew Scott
Senior Researcher on Climate-Related Human Mobility, Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund University
Andrew Selee, PhD
President, Migration Policy Institute
Peggy M. Shepard
Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Erin Sikorsky
Director, Center for Climate and Security
Janti Soeripto
President & Chief Executive Officer, Save the Children
ADM Scott H. Swift
USN (ret), Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (2015-2018)
Dr. Adelle Thomas
Senior Fellow, University of The Bahamas and Senior Scientist, Climate Analytics
Hamdi Ulukaya
Founder and CEO of Chobani and Founder of the Tent Partnership for Refugees
Krish O'Mara Vignarajah
President and CEO, Global Refuge
Gaia Vince
Author and Journalist
Alex Walker-Griffin
Former Mayor of Hercules, California, United States
Mark Watts
Executive Director of C40 Cities
Dr. Michael Werz
Senior Fellow, National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress
Sherrie Westin
CEO, Sesame Workshop
Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.
President, Republic of Palau
Jocelyn Wyatt
CEO, Alight
Ana Zacapa
Chair, Root Capital
Vittoria Zanuso
Executive Director of the Mayors Migration Council
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