WASHINGTON, DC — As the scale and costs of climate change and environmental disasters escalate, the failure to anticipate and prepare for climate mobility comes with a heavy price. Tackling climate mobility — whether rebuilding after disaster displacement, preparing host communities to accommodate climate-driven inflows or relocating entire towns — will require significant, well-designed investments. Yet while international donors such as governments and multilateral funders are beginning to increase their climate mobility investments, these funds fall far short of what is needed to address the growing challenges of climate-driven displacement. A new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) issue brief offers an overview of how development funders, ranging from the European Commission and African Development Bank to the German and Canadian governments, are responding to climate mobility issues. It also highlights entry points for interested donors and outlines common barriers donors have faced and the and strategies to overcome these hurdles. The brief, Funding Climate Mobility Projects: Key Players and Strategies for Growth, draws from insights collected during a multi-year MPI partnership with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, which supported a donor community of practice that includes representatives from donor governments, philanthropic foundations and multilateral development banks interested in climate mobility work. The growing scale and complexity of climate-related mobility requires a paradigm shift in global funding for responses, MPI analysts Lawrence Huang and Samuel Davidoff-Gore suggest. They identify a critical need for coordination among bilateral and multilateral funders, with an emphasis on avoiding duplication and ensuring funds are directed toward locally driven, effective solutions. Multilateral development banks and global climate funds such as the Green Climate Fund and the Global Environmental Facility hold significant promise for expanding investments, though enhanced strategies and partnerships with national governments are needed to unlock larger-scale funding. And while donors often have extensive expertise in climate adaptation or migration, these issue areas often remain siloed. “Stronger coordination among donors could help expand the funding roster, reduce the risk of duplication and unlock larger investments through collaboration between bilateral and multilateral funders,” Huang and Davidoff-Gore write. “And finally, greater cooperation is needed to align the climate mobility interests of high-income donors with the pressing challenges faced by low- and middle-income partner countries.” Read the brief here: www.migrationpolicy.org/research/funding-climate-mobility-projects. For all of MPI’s work on climate mobility, visit: www.migrationpolicy.org/topics/climate-change. | 
