Campaign for Climate Refugees
Each year, more than 20 million people are forced to leave their homeland due to climate change. We must protect these people and insist our elected officials implement appropriate and compassionate climate refugee policies.
Climate change is the greatest threat facing humanity today. We must act now to protect our planet, future generations, biodiversity and entire eco-systems, by mitigating the disastrous effects of the climate emergency. Yet in order to do so, we also have to come to terms with the present and the certainties of our future, in order to be able to create viable solutions.
To help kickstart your climate activism, we have drafted email templates for you adapt and send to traditional institutions within your own communities, to insist they take action on climate.
Climate change cannot be addressed with one broad-brush email. However our drafts can encourage you to think about these topics within your domain, to research some statistics within your communities and take action.
The below email draft sets you on the path to demand that our elected officials protect climate refugees and implement appropriate and compassionate climate refugee policies immediately.
How to use this email template
ADAPT • Edit the <italics> words, sentences and/or paragraphs with your appropriate text, adding your own details as well as researched statistics, experiences and data
EMAIL • Your local state and federal elected officials.
Email draft
To whom it may concern,
My name is <Your name> and I am a constituent of your <suburb, municipality and/or state>. I am writing to you as a member of your electorate who is increasingly concerned about the climate crisis, specifically with regard to the climate refugees – or Internally Displaced People (IDP) – that are repeatedly being forced to leave their homes as a result of the effects of climate change.
According to the United Nations, climate change and the consequent increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events is forcing more than 20 million people to leave their homelands each year. These extreme weather events are due to developed countries – such as ours – producing the majority of emissions, with developing countries then suffering the negative climate effects at a disproportionate rate.
As <Americans/Australians/Britons/Your Country> we regularly involve ourselves in international affairs and diplomacy. However, our lack of concrete intervention when it comes to climate refugees is severely inadequate. We have a responsibility to care for these human lives immediately.
Our government needs to implement permanent and compassionate policies to accept climate refugees/IPD as needed. These policies must include expediting infrastructure and the integration of our neighbors safely into society, as well as giving them immediate access to citizenship, social systems and due process, in order for them to be able to establish their new lives as humanely and easily as possible.
Displacement from one’s homeland and heritage are devastating tragedies and climate refugees need our support, empathy and inclusion immediately.
If we are truly leaders of the free world, we must lead by example. Our pressing need to commit to enacting permanent and compassionate policies for climate refugees/IPD cannot be understated.
I assure you I will be using my future votes to support elected officials who are committed to compassionately caring for climate refugees — and I will be active and vocal in my encouraging others within our electorate to do the same.
I await your response with anticipation.
Kind regards,
<Your Name>
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