Blue Diplomacy and water cooperation – solutions to relief the pressure of climate induced migration - Related links

European Commission

• REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT on the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC) and the Floods Directive (2007/60/EC) (4 February 2025)

• Commission Staff Working Document: Addressing displacement and migration related to disasters, climate change and environmental degradation (22 July 2022)

European Parliament

• 2024/2104(INI): The European Water Resilience Strategy (Draft Report) (29 January 2025)

• EPRS: The concept of 'climate refugee': Towards a possible definition (briefing) (5 October 2023)

• 2021/2187(INI): Resolution: Access to water as a human right – the external dimension (own-initiative procedure) (5 October 2022)

• 2020/2613(RSP): Resolution on the implementation of the EU water legislation (resolution) (17 December 2020)

The Council of the European Union/European Council

• Water in diplomacy: Council confirms EU's commitment to enhanced EU engagement (19 November 2021)

• Water diplomacy: Council adopts conclusions (19 November 2018)

Other sources

• European Environment Agency Analysis: Water scarcity conditions in Europe (17 January 2025)

• UN FAO Booklet: Mainstreaming gender in national drought plans, national action plans and national policies (2025)

• Egmont Institute Policy Brief: Climate Justice and Human Mobility: Bridging EU Commitments and Policies (20 June 2024)

• European Migration Network Inform: Displacement and migration related to disasters, climate change and environmental degradation (May 2023)

• UN FAO Book: Climate change, migration and rural adaptation in the Near East and North Africa region (2023)

• Bruegel article: Climate migration: what do we really know? (25 April 2022)

• World Bank Group: Groundswell Report Part 2: Acting on Internal Climate Migration (2021)

• World Resources Institute Report: Achieving Abundance: Understanding the Cost of a Sustainable Water Future (21 January 2021)

• International Organisation for Migration: Migration in the Context of Climate and Environmental Changes within Central Asia and to the European Union and the Russian Federation (2024)

• International Organisation for Migration: Climate Mobility Roadmap 2021-2030 (2021)

• International Organisation for Migration: Exploring the Climate Change–conflict–mobility Nexus (April 2021)

• International Organisation for Migration: Institutional Strategy on Migration, Environment and Climate Change 2021–2030 (28 October 2021)

• European Environment Agency Report: Water resources across Europe — confronting water stress: an updated assessment (27 October 2021)

• UN FAO Report: Water stress and human migration: a global, georeferenced review of empirical research (FAO Water & Migration Working Group) (2018)